Position Papers
18 March 2020
Dairy’s role in healthy and sustainable diets
IDF has taken note of the FAO/WHO sustainable healthy diets guiding principlesi, based on the proposed definition that sustainable healthy diets are dietary patterns that promote all dimensions of ind...
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16 March 2020
Linking Food Processing to Health Outcomes: A Simplistic and Dangerous Approach
IDF is concerned by the efforts of some policymakers to provide dietary guidance by ranking foods by degree of processing, by using the NOVA system. Although such approaches are presented as contribut...
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27 November 2019
Holistic view of proteins: amino acids and post-translational modifications
Proteins are essential in every part of life. They are a source of essential amino acids, which are the essential building blocks for in vivo protein synthesis. However, considering proteins only as...
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