How food choices link sociodemographic and lifestyle factors with sustainability impacts

While the production of food causes major environmental impacts and poses social risks, consumption healthy nutritious is essential for human wellbeing. Against this background, action to make current diets more sustainable needed, which in turn requires knowledge on possibilities improvement. In study, we investigated how sociodemographic lifestyle factors relate different sustainability Switzerland using recent dietary recall data (n = 2057). Of each recall, assessed six impacts: global warming potential, cropland grassland occupation, diet quality, cost. We association between choices as well socio-economic impacts, combined these results a qualitative approach. The median Swiss recalls were 3.25 kg CO2eq 4.92 m2 1.43 occupation. Further, score risks was 1.64 e+08 points (Social Hotspots Index), quality 43.65 (Alternate Healthy Eating 9.27 CHF Moreover, our showed that any groups, be it health, social, or reasons, potentially affects societal groups differently. Nationalities, language regions, age smoking status seemed particularly distinctive, while income educational hardly relevant. reductions some especially types meat, offer large potentials synergies multiple impact categories. Others, such fruits vegetables fish seafood, result trade-offs. On one hand, contribute an improved quality. other are costly, additionally risks. Our target measures support environmentally-friendly, healthy, effectively.