What A Planet Sustaining Diet Looks Like

Why sustainability should be in our conversations about dieting and nutrition.

North of Mombasa in Kenya, there is a collection of fishing villages dotting the coast near Kilifi. Those waters are home to a variety of edible sea creatures like parrotfish, and octopuses.

Even though those villages have access to these edible sea creatures, residents — and the children — are rarely seen eating any seafood at all. For children, their staple meal is ugali (basically a porridge to us westerners that’s a mixture of cornflour and water), and their vitamins and nutrition come from plants.

This lifestyle has resulted in some unusual circumstances with the growth of the kids in the area. Half of the kids have stunted growth — twice the national rate.

The state they are in makes sense in the parent’s minds. If they were to be eating even a little bit of what they caught, that would cut into their profits which would impact their way of life.

In response to this, a group of researchers in 2020 devised a plan to:

These queries aren’t being asked in small fishing villages in Africa. These are questions being asked around the world as more and more people are eager to find answers.

Combined with a rising world population and more people adopting the Western diet, we can already begin to see problems with the sustainability of this.

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