Environmental footprints of Mediterranean versus Western dietary patterns: beyond the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet

Table 1 Environmental footprints for MDP, WDP and SCP, and current real pressure for each footprint

	MDP	SCP_FB	SCP_CS	WDP	Current real pressure
Agricultural land use (10 ³ Ha year ^-1 )	8 365	19 874	12 342	33 162	15 400
Energy consumption (TJ year ^-1 )	239 042	493 829	285 968	611 314	229 178
Water consumption (Km ³ year ^-1 )	13.2	19.7	13.4	22.0	19.4
Greenhouse gas emissions (Gg CO _2-eq year ^-1 )	35 510	125 913	72 758	217 128	62 389

The subscripts FB and CS refer to estimates derived from food balance sheets and from consumption surveys, respectively.

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