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Impacts of large-scale food fortification on the cost of nutrient-adequate diets: a modeling study in 89 countries
Leah Costlow, Yan Bai, Katherine P. Adams +8
Large-scale food fortification (LSFF) is a widely accepted intervention to alleviate micronutrient deficiencies, yet policy implementation is often incomplete. Even assuming high i…
Healthy diets are affordable but often displaced by other foods in Indonesia
Leah Costlow, Rachel Gilbert, William A. Masters +6
New methods for modeling least-cost diets that meet nutritional requirements for health have emerged as important tools for informing nutrition policy and programming around the wo…
Environmental impacts and monetary costs of healthy diets worldwide
Yan Bai, Elena M. Martinez, Mizuki Yamanaka +3
Using real-world food price and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions data for locally available food items in 171 countries, we measure how healthy diets could be obtained with the lowes…
Retail prices, environmental footprints, and nutritional profiles of commonly sold retail food items in 181 countries
Elena M. Martinez, Nicole Tichenor Blackstone, Parke E. Wilde +2
Background: Transitions towards healthier, more environmentally sustainable diets would require large shifts in consumption patterns. Cost and affordability can be barriers to cons…
Least-cost diets to teach optimization and consumer behavior, with applications to health equity, poverty measurement and international development
Jessica K. Wallingford, William A. Masters
The least-cost diet problem introduces students to optimization and linear programming, using the health consequences of food choice. We provide a graphical example, Excel workbook…