The report was reviewed with high interest. It is very well structured and informative. It is not too technical or to simple.
Nevertheless the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health and Womens´s Affairs (Departement III/8) wants to highlight some very important points which need further consideration.
The links between environment and nutrition are of high importance for present and future measures which try to improve nutritional status and behaviour. For this reasons it would be important that this report does contains more information and scientific data about:
- Marketing to children and the different approaches how it could be limited
- The role of producers and enterprises. They also have to contribute to a healthy nutrition in the context of under AND overnutrition. Different approaches of how they could contribute (e.g reformulation initiatives, stop marketing to children respective stop marketing for HFSS) should be highlighted.
- The role of environments which contribute to healthy and adequate nutrition (e.g healthy school lunches, food in hospitals and retirement homes).
This report contains of course a big section about undernutrition. Austria highly recommends to also focus on mechanisms which contribute to undernutrition in western countries. E.g inadequate nutrition in hospitals and retirement homes.
Judith Benedics