Landmark 85/100
EAT-Lancet Commission — Food in the Anthropocene
In plain English
37 scientists from 16 countries derived a 'planetary health diet' — roughly 70% plant-based — that could feed 10 billion people sustainably while preventing approximately 11 million premature deaths a year. The diet specifies ranges, not rigid prescriptions, with vegetables, fruit, whole grains and legumes as the bulk.
Why it matters
A planetary health diet (~70% plant) could prevent 11M premature deaths/yr.
Informs: Plant-Based Score
Provenance
- Design
- Systematic review
- Sample size (n)
- 11,600,000
- Peer-reviewed
- Yes
- Replications
- 2
- Funding
- Mixed (public + private/non-profit)
- Funders
- EAT Foundation, Wellcome Trust
- Institutions
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Stockholm Resilience Centre, University of Oxford
decades.plus score
A transparent 0–100 weighted sum across six components. Higher scores reflect bigger, cleaner, more replicated work.
Landmark 85/100
Caveats
Modelled estimate, not a trial. The Commission's environmental and health framings have been critiqued for being too restrictive in some contexts (low-income, growing children, traditional cultures).
