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

Table 2.

Human health, nutritional, environmental and economic indicator scores under different Swiss dietary scenarios.

Scenario Human Health Nutritional Environmental Economic
Reduced DALYs * NBS DNS PAN GHG WFP LFP NFP PFP Cost
REF - 93.82 0.00 96 2.27 0.59 4.38 29.0 5.23 10.58
HGD 953 95.93 1.35 87 1.20 0.40 3.24 21.0 3.75 7.23
RSN 15,756 98.77 0.00 91 1.04 0.44 2.96 19.3 3.45 6.89
VGN 20,986 88.08 15.41 87 0.38 0.60 4.08 23.6 4.33 9.04
VGT 8049 91.37 0.00 94 0.78 0.61 4.27 25.7 4.61 8.38
PST 10,679 92.68 0.00 95 0.78 0.61 4.21 25.7 4.62 9.21
FXT 5259 93.09 0.00 94 1.24 0.59 4.16 26.0 4.69 8.85
PTO −23,699 88.76 0.00 95 3.33 0.60 5.04 32.5 5.93 11.76
MTO −24,788 88.56 0.00 92 3.92 0.58 4.94 33.0 5.98 12.67
TAX 706 93.82 0.00 96 2.20 0.59 4.37 29.0 5.22 10.56

The scenarios are as follows: current Swiss diet (REF), 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). For each of the 10 indicators, the best and worst scores are marked in green and red, respectively.* See Supplementary Tables S4–S6 for the food group specific results and 95% confidence intervals. * A negative value under health indicator (i.e., change in DALYs per year) means the diet is bad for human health relative to the current diet. The nutrition quality indicators are: nutrient balance score (NBS), disqualifying nutrient score (DNS) and % population share with adequate nutrients (PAN). The nutrition indicators vary from 0–100 with a higher score signifying a nutritious diet meeting recommended levels. Five food related environmental footprints (per capita per day) are: greenhouse gas (GHG in kg CO2eq), water (WFP in m3), land (LFP in m2), nitrogen (NFP in gN) and phosphorus (PFP in gP). Cost is the daily expenditure on food in Swiss Francs (CHF).