Environmental Impacts of Personalized Nutrition
Doctoral thesis of Christie Walker
This research investigates the relationships among individual’s preferred food choices, the health consequences of those choices, and the environmental impacts associated with the production of their food. The end result will provide diets optimized for an individual based on their gender, age, macro and micronutrient requirements, and food preferences while considering and minimizing the environmental impacts of the production, processing, and transportation of this food.
In the framework of this project, we developed a tool to be used for personalized diet composition assessments. The tool quantifies and assesses environmental impacts and nutritional values in order to provide a low environmental impact and healthful diet specific to country and season:
For more details see:
Methodology and optimization tool for a personalized low environmental impact and healthful diet specific to country and season
Christie Walker, Stephan Pfister and Stefanie Hellweg
Journal of Industrial Ecology, vol. 5, pp. 1147–1160, 2021
external page https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13131
Methodology and optimization tool for a personalized low environmental impact and healthful diet specific to country and season
Christie Walker, Stephan Pfister and Stefanie Hellweg
Journal of Industrial Ecology, vol. 5, pp. 1147–1160, 2021
external page https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13131
Comparing environmental and personal health impacts of individual food choices
Christie Walker, Eileen R. Gibney, John C. Mathers et al.
The Science of The Total Environment, vol. 685, pp. 609-620, 2019
external page https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.404
Calculating the energy and water use in food processing and assessing the resulting impacts
Christie Walker, Neus Sanjuán, Claudio Beretta and Stefanie Hellweg
The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, vol. 23: no. 4, pp. 824-839, Landsberg: Springer, 2018.
external page https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-017-1327-6
Comparison of Environmental Impact and Nutritional Quality among a European Sample Population - findings from the Food4Me study
Christie Walker, Eileen R. Gibney and Stefanie Hellweg
Scientific Reports, vol. 8, pp. 2330, London: Nature Publishing Group, 2018.
external page https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-20391-4