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. 2019 Apr 16;11(4):856. doi: 10.3390/nu11040856

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The human health consequences of shifting to an alternative diet. Negative numbers indicate human health benefit and positive numbers indicate an increase in adverse health outcomes. Four disease states used in the health impact model are ischemic or coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) and total cancer. Abbreviations: Healthy Global Diet (HGD), diet following the recommendation of Swiss Society in Nutrition (RSN), Vegan diet (VGN), lacto-ovo Vegetarian diet (VGT), lacto-ovo Pescatarian diet (PST), Flexitarian diet (FXT), protein-oriented diet (PTO), meat-oriented diet (MTO) and food greenhouse gas tax diet (TAX).