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. 2023 Jul 21;15(14):3247. doi: 10.3390/nu15143247

Table 3.

Critiques of the working SFNV definition of precision nutrition.

Critique Type Critique
  1. Term

  • ‘Individual’

  • Too many population-wide problems to focus on the individual

  • Can be focused on the community or regional level

  • Needs to be a gradation through stratification of groups with similar characteristics to individual precision nutrition

  • Can do a one-size-fits-all approach in areas where there is little precision nutrition happening, and then leverage funding and commitment to do stratified targeting

  • ‘Rigorous’

  • Rigorous is not necessary or well-defined for low-resource settings

  • ‘LMIC’

  • Precision public health is for all

  • Precision nutrition is global, not just for LMIC

  • ‘Accessibility and affordability’

  • Consider if accessibility and affordability are obligatory

  • 2.

    Definition-wide

  • Should take the ecology of a person into account

  • Needs to be broad, but also needs depth

  • Too broad and not precise