“Classic or vegan diet? The app helps you choose for health and the environment”

Saving the Planet and at the same time the waistline is possible, thanks to an app created by Christie Walker, researcher at the Institute of Environmental Engineering of the ETH Zurich. Once the data (country, month, weight, sex, height and age) have been entered in the software interface, the algorithms set to work to calculate a diet which, considering over 500 food products , group all the nutrients necessary for a healthy life, and at the same time indicate those that have – according to a series of factors such as emissions related to their production or transport – the least impact on both greenhouse gases and biodiversity.