Experts draw up diet that could boost health and protect planet

NO one should eat meat more than three times a week, according to a landmark report by health experts.

- BY MARTIN BAGOT

The restriction is needed to help save the planet and bolster our own health.

And we should be eating more nuts, chickpeas and vegetables instead.

The 2025 Eat-Lancet Commission says food production is exceeding planetary boundaries, so it has come up with a diet of mainly fruit and vegetables.

It concluded the diet, low in meat and dairy, also cuts our risk of early death by 27 per cent and would save 15million deaths globally a year from preventable diseases linked to poor food intake.

A previous Eat-Lancet Commission report in 2019 put our average daily meat intake at 147g.

Latest guidance advises that should be shrunk and mostly replaced by beans, peas, soy and nuts. It also says dairy consumption should be limited to one portion a day of milk, cheese or yoghurt.