BACKGROUND Accurate, adequate, and timely food and nutrition information is necessary in order to monitor changes in the US food supply and assess their impact on individual dietary intake. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to develop an approach that links time-specific purchase and consumption data to provide updated, market representative nutrient information. METHODS We utilized household purchase ...

The US Department of Agriculture and the US Department of Health and Human Services first developed the Dietary Guidelines for Americans in 1980 (1). The dietary guidelines provide advice to healthy Americans on food choices to promote healthy eating and reduce risk of disease. The dietary guidelines were updated in 1985, 1990, and 1995 to ensure their accurate interpretation of the most recent...

“The interrelationships of homocysteine, B vitamins, and atherosclerosis, (and) the findings of a significant inverse relation between dietary intake of folate and vitamin B6 and mortality and morbidity from cardiovascular disease during a 14-year period in the Nurses' Health Study... with intervention through supplementation, fortification, improved dietary intake of folate and vitamin B6, ......

BACKGROUND In December 1995, the governments of the United Kingdom and United States independently published guidelines on alcohol consumption. The UK Sensible Drinking guidelines were designed specifically as a review of scientific and medical evidence on the effects of alcohol and of policy directed at alcohol use. The dietary guidelines issued by the US government in Nutrition and Your Healt...

Let us know how access to this document benefits you. Abstract Prior research on eating behaviors has shown that romantic partners actively merge their dietary preferences throughout the course of a relationship and find significant value in cooking and eating the same foods together at the same times. Yet, little is known regarding the impacts of specific dietary support processes involved in ...

Many public health recommendations are not truly evidence based (Brownson et al., 2003). Although some public health decisions can and should be made in the face of inconclusive data, many should not. The need for restraint may be especially salient when considering dietary guidelines. Dietary fat recommendations are a case in point, because they may have led to significant and harmful unintend...

BACKGROUND Recent population dietary studies indicate that diets rich in ultra-processed foods, increasingly frequent worldwide, are grossly nutritionally unbalanced, suggesting that the dietary contribution of these foods largely determines the overall nutritional quality of contemporaneous diets. Yet, these studies have focused on individual nutrients (one at a time) rather than the overall n...

Although an estimated 50% of adults in the United States consume dietary supplements, analytically substantiated data on their bioactive constituents are sparse. Several programs funded by the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health enhance dietary supplement database development and help to better describe the quantitative and qualitative contributions of dieta...

A former food writer for the New York Times recently described his experience testing out (and being tested by) the US Department of Agriculture’s 2005 dietary guidelines. The Dietary Guidelines recommend a ‘balanced eating pattern’ emphasising adequate consumption of a variety of fruits and vegetables, whole-grain products and low-fat milk while limiting intake of fats and sugars and engaging ...