The 2015 US Dietary Guidelines

The 2015 US Dietary Guidelines: Lifting the Ban on Total Dietary Fat.

Comparison of children's dietary intake patterns with US dietary guidelines.

Monitoring dietary intake patterns among children is important in order to explore and prevent the onset of adult health problems. The aim of the present study was to compare children's dietary intakes with national recommendations and to determine whether sex or ethnic differences were evident. This was done using a methodology that allows assessment of intake from the major components of the ...

Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Washington, DC: US Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services, 2015.

These data are estimates of the percent of total energy intake from WWEIA Food Categories, regrouped into DGAC major categories and subcategories as described elsewhere, fors 2 years and older by racial/ethnic group, based on the day 1 dietary recalls from What We Eat in America, NHANES 2009-2010. Breastfed children have been excluded. The overall sample size is 9,042.

The scientific report guiding the US dietary guidelines: is it scientific?

The expert report underpinning the next set of US Dietary Guidelines for Americans fails to reflect much relevant scientific literature in its reviews of crucial topics and therefore risks giving a misleading picture, an investigation by The BMJ has found. The omissions seem to suggest a reluctance by the committee behind the report to consider any evidence that contradicts the last 35 years of...

DGAC Makes Food-Based Recommendations in the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

A collection of Practice Guidelines published in AFP is available at http:// www.aafp.org/afp/ practguide. About one-half of the adults in the United States have at least one chronic disease (e.g., cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus) that could be prevented. Data indicate that a healthy diet and regular physical activity can reduce the risk of these diseases. The Dietary Guideline...