#Dietary-Guidelines

What are healthy diets? Joint statement by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization What this is about: Healthy diets promote health, growth and development, support active lifestyles, prevent nutrient deficiencies and excesses, communicable

Every five years since 1980, we get to go through the most enormous fuss about dietary guidelines that have not changed in any fundamental way since then. Then and now, they say eat more vegetables, balance calories, and reduce intake of foods high in sugar, salt, and fat. You don’t believe me? 

The current Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee has produced its draft recommendations.  These, as I discuss tomorrow, are mostly banal, much the same as all guidelines since 1980. But this year there are two rather shocking exceptions, both having to do with what is not recommended. Incredible

I don’t like writing about the dietary guidelines process while it is still ongoing because so much can change between now and the time the advisory committee submits its report, and USDA and HHS issue the actual guidelines. But this Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee is dealing with the

The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is taking the lead on bringing dietary guidelines into the 21st Century. It is calling for national dietary guidelines not only to be nutrient-based and food-based, but food systems-based. Food systems-based guidelines extend beyond food-based