Assessing the Health and Environmental Benefits of a New Zealand Diet Optimised for Health and Climate Protection

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This is a study and the authors have done extensive analysis. The article is well-written and the findings are well-presented. However, there are a few comments for improvement. 

1. Lines 12, 14, 196, 242 and Table 2 (SSB)....Acronyms have no precedent explanations. Please check

2. Please check the indent and full stop used in the manuscript (lines 24, 90, 362, 379, 421).  

3. Line 64-68. Please rephrase the sentences.

4.  Line 112. To be written in the past tense.

5. Line 182-188. Please elaborate or reference how the authors decided on this constraint. Why twice the baseline is considered to be unrealistic?

6. Line 175. Please spell the word multi-plied correctly. 

7.  Figure 2 does not fit the page.

8. Line 300-305 and Line 319-325. Which figure do you referring to?

9. Line 347-370. The percentages mentioned are not found in the table.

10. Line 425-430. Please rephrase.

 

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Reviewer 2 Report

The authors did an interesting work to assess the health and environmental co-benefits in NZ. The manuscript is well organized and significant for the ecological study for human and planetary health. But it still needs to further improve the manuscript before publication.

 

1. When the abbreviation first appears, its full name should be explained, i.e. BMI in line 218;

2. The data used is in 2010, this date is quite old, why authors do not use the most current data?

3. How is QALYs calculated? Please give more details in the method section.

4. What is the GHG emissions and price for the food considered in the manuscript? The authors didn’t give the detailed information.

5. Figure 1 and 2 are ugly, the authors can consider to remove the border and beauty them.

6. In table 3, what does the value mean inside the bracket? This should be mentioned. Why some categories have the brackets values, but others do not have?

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