Overview of Elements within National Food-Based Dietary Guidelines

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.

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...

Food based dietary guidelines in Vietnam: progress and lessons learned.

The food based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) is a crucial tool for nutrition education and communication in Vietnam. Together with the changes of socio-economic situation, Vietnam needs to deal with different nutritional problems including malnutrition, overweight and undiversified diets at the same time. From 1995 to the present, three versions of FBDGs have been developed and revised in a period...

Food-based dietary guidelines: some assumptions tested for The Netherlands.

Recently, the concept of food-based dietary guidelines has been introduced by WHO and FAO. For this concept, several assumptions were necessary. The validity and potential consequences of some of these assumptions are discussed in this paper on the basis of the Dutch National Food Consumption Surveys. The topics were interrelationships among dietary characteristics, nutrient density, diets in a...