The International Dairy Federation (IDF) would like to thank CFS/HPLPE-FSN for the opportunity to provide comments on this important work.
We would like to make some remarks on the part about diet quality, described on page 34.
We have noticed that the indicators used, i.e., AHEI and Global Diet Quality Project might not be the most suitable to reflect the global diet quality. There might seem to be an oversimplification to categorize ‘(un)healthy diets’ based on adherence to dietary guidelines and particularly when they are based on Western diets and subsequently used to assess diets in other areas of the world. Making a distinction in diet assessments between nutrient (in)sufficiency and dietary risk factors in relation to non-communicable diseases is recommended. The data available from the Global Burden of Disease (https://www.healthdata.org/gbd/2019) on population health and how it varies by different regions, socioeconomic status, or ethnic groups in their country, could improve the content of this section. Moreover, reference to high dietary quality is made in the text, however, it is not clear how high dietary quality is defined.
博士 Anabel Mulet Cabero