Sustainable healthy diets: balance between plant and animal-source foods

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Paragraph 11 of the Committee on World Food Security Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems for Nutrition Draft for Negotiations highlights unhealthy diets as a major risk factor for multiple forms of malnutrition and health outcomes globally 1. The document also defines the concepts of healthy diets and sustainable healthy diets in paragraph 20 and 21. The issue of what constitutes an unhealthy diet, as well as a sustainable healthy diet is important and requires contemplation, balance, and careful consideration of the wide-ranging impacts of any recommendations.