A successful Australian diet that includes eating high levels of red meat has been under attack this week.
The diet, developed by research body CSIRO, is known as the Total Wellbeing Diet . Dieticians had previously lambasted the diet, and now environmental groups say that it encourages water wasting and greenhouse gas generation.
The diet, according to a recent journal report, would use 15,000 litres of water whilst generating some 4.3 extra tonnes of greenhouse gas. The authors of the diet have dismissed the claims, reportedly commenting:
Two scientists who attacked the diet reportedly commented: "While the CSIRO may not have deliberately designed the Total Wellbeing Diet to be a maximally destructive diet, that is what it has the potential to be."
