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How Denmark launched climate-smart dietary guidelines

How Denmark launched climate-smart dietary guidelines

Update: 2024-01-15
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The recent update of the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations, the Nordic evidence base on what we should eat, made it clear that the environmental impacts of food are important to consider when developing dietary guidelines (check out episode 1!). Now, Nordic countries are updating their own dietary guidelines and have the opportunity to follow the NNR’s lead and incorporate environmental sustainability into their guidance on what to eat. While several Nordic countries are steeped in debate over whether dietary guidelines should be good for people and the planet or focus solely on nutrition, for one country, this is old news. In this episode, I talk with two experts who were integral to developing and launching Denmark's climate-smart dietary guidelines…back in 2021. We talk about the political climate and the process that made this a quiet success. 

Joining me in the episode: 

-Anne Pøhl Enevoldsen, Head of Department for Sustainable Food and Health at the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration (she has since moved on to an exciting role at Forbrugerrådet Tænk - The Consumer Council Think). 

-Ellen Trolle, PhD, Senior Researcher at the Technical University of Denmark in the Nutrition, Sustainability and Health Promotion research group. 

 

What exactly do climate-smart dietary guidelines look like? Check out Denmark’s guidelines here

You can enjoy the theme song for the Danish Dietary guidelines in all its uncensored glory here, and it was used in this episode with permission from Fødevarestyrelsen, the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration. 

Curious about the research base used to develop the Danish FBDG? Here is one of the foundational reports (in Danish) and here is how researchers translated international research on sustainable diets to the Danish context (in English). 

Credits for photos used in the cover art:
Photo of Anne Pøhl Enevoldsen, source: Danish Veterinary and Food Administration
Photo of Ellen Trolle, source: The Technical University of Denmark

Music in this podcast provided by ChezGroove/Pond 5

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How Denmark launched climate-smart dietary guidelines

How Denmark launched climate-smart dietary guidelines

Amanda Wood