Every five years the US Department of Agriculture joins the Department of Health and Human Services to release Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The 2010 Guidelines will be released later this year. A lot of research and review goes into these guidelines by an advisory committee. Although we have to wait a few more months for the final guidelines, the advisory committee released their preliminary findings. This year, the guidelines will focus on reducing dietary sodium, solid fats, and added sugars. The committee also urges Americans to add more plant based foods such as fruits and vegetables into the diet and suggests following the 2008 guidelines for physical activity.
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Thank you for the heads up!
So often speed and convience dictate how and what we feed our children. But we are seeing more health related consequences because of it. Hopefully the new guidelines will help improve our nutrition knowledge for parents, resturants, and especially schools.
I’ll be curious to see how the sodium guidelines turn out, given how much attention the American Heart Association has paid to sodium reduction in the past year.
Thanks for the head’s up to keep a lookout for the guidelines later this year. I’ll be checking back with your blog regularly.
Nice job.
Good to see they will be more stringent on the sodium. I am very salt sensitive so this is good news to me!
thanks for the guidelines