Food-Based Dietary Guidelines – Practical Aspects of Implementation

Implementation of guidelines: some practical aspects

The setting up of adequate legislation for the protection of the quality of water resources is an essential point in the environmental development of all countries. The transfer of guidelines into practicable standards, which are used not merely for enforcement, but as an integral part of public health and environmental protection policy, has been a challenge for most countries. This chapter ex...

Food-based dietary guidelines--the Austrian perspective.

Presently, no national dietary guidelines--neither food- nor nutrient-based--exist for Austria. Usually, the recommendations of the German Society of Nutrition are used instead. The determination of national characteristics of nutritional behaviour and food consumption can reveal starting-points for the improvement of nutritional status in Austria. Seven-day weighed records (children and adoles...

Food-based dietary guidelines in circumpolar regions.

Practical experience in development and promotion of food-based dietary guidelines in Thailand.

Although under-nutrition problems have been decreasing in Thailand, non-communicable diseases have become leading causes of death and disability. Food-Based Dietary Guidelines (FBDGs) is a key strategy to promote healthy daily food consumption and appropriate lifestyles. The development consists of qualitative and quantitative parts. The purposes were 1) to assist consumers in making healthy di...

effectiveness of community-based intervention to promote iran’s food-based dietary guidelines

background: dietary guidelines are considered as a useful tool for the promotion of healthy dietary behaviors. in iran, despite the development of the latest national food‑based dietary guidelines, in 2006, it has not been introduced at the community level yet. the present study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention program to promote iran’s food‑based dietary guidelines (ifbdgs...