Guidance for monitoring healthy diets

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Considering the broad scope of the mission statement, HDMI intends to first establish guidance for measuring healthy diets for public health. The current guidance document is focused on healthy diets for healthy people. This version of the document provides an overview of the range of purposes for measuring the healthiness of diets and offers examples of the dietary assessment methods and types of dietary intake data, surveys and metrics that are currently available to monitor healthy diets.

A subsequent version will offer more detailed recommendations regarding the selection and operationalization of metrics for healthy diet monitoring for healthy people. In a later phase, HDMI intends to issue guidance on how to monitor healthy diets for both public and planetary health (i.e. including environmental sustainability considerations).