/channels/news_feeds/all/term/Bennett/rss en /channels/news/dietary-shifts-driving-phosphorus-use-219827 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Dietary changes since the early 1960s have fueled a sharp increase in the amount of mined phosphorus used to produce the food consumed by the average person over the course of a year, according to a new study led by researchers at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ. Between 1961 and 2007, rising meat consumption and total calorie intake underpinned a 38% increase in the world’s per capita “phosphorus footprint,” the researchers conclude in a paper published online in <i>Environmental Research Letters</i>.</p> <p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/metson_map_pfoot_dec12_ligher_yellow.jpg?itok=u09XQToo" width="160" height="207" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">17 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2013</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:28:26 +0000 webfull 89619 at /channels