Choose a Variety of Grains Daily, Especially Whole Grains: A Challenge for Consumers
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Choose a variety of grains daily, especially whole grains: a challenge for consumers.
The 2000 edition of Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for Americans is the first to include a specific guideline for grain foods, separate from fruits and vegetables, and recognize the unique health benefits of whole grains. This paper describes and evaluates major tools for assessing intakes of total grains and whole grains, reviews current data on who consumes grain foods and wher...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Nutrition
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0022-3166,1541-6100
DOI: 10.1093/jn/131.2.473s