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 | Title: | Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010 | | Pub. date: | January 2011 | | Includes: | Booklet, Online Document | | Audience: | Nutrition Educators | | Language: | English | | Description: | The new 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans focus on balancing calories with physical activity, and encourage Americans to consume more healthy foods like vegetables, fruits, whole grains, fat-free and low-fat dairy products, and seafood, and to consume less sodium, saturated and trans fats, added sugars, and refined grains. They provide science-based advice to promote health and to reduce risk for major chronic diseases through diet and physical activity. Oriented toward policymakers, nutrition educators, nutritionists, and health care providers, they summarizes and synthesizes knowledge regarding individual nutrients and food components into recommendations for a pattern of eating that can be adopted by the public. Key Recommendations are grouped under nine inter-related focus areas. | | Funding Source: | USDA and DHHS |
| Developer: | Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee | | Organization: | Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services | | Length: | 112 pages | | Use Restrictions: | May copy for educational purposes. | | Reviewers Comments: | The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans places stronger emphasis on reducing calorie consumption and increasing physical activity. Unlike previous versions of the Dietary Guidelines targeting healthy Americans, the 2010 Guidelines is intended for all Americans ages 2 years and older, including those at increased risk of chronic disease. The two overarching concepts of the guidelines are:
- Maintain calorie balance over time to achieve and sustain a healthy weight.
- Focus on consuming nutrient-dense foods and beverages.
The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans includes 23 Key Recommendations for the general population and six additional Key Recommendations for specific population groups, such as women who are pregnant. The recommendations are intended as an integrated set of advice to achieve an overall healthy eating pattern.
Several new recommendations are included in these guidelines, including a recommendation to reduce calories from solid fats and added sugars, one to limit consumption of refined grains and replace with whole grains, one to consume seafood in place of some meat/poultry, a new Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for calcium for children and a specific guidance in regards to alcohol for breast-feeding women. Several new appendices are also incorporated into the guidelines, including a chart of potential strategies that professionals can use to implement the 2010 Dietary Guidelines. |
| View/download files: | | | Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010 : http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/DGAs2010-PolicyDocument.htm | | Contact the Distributor: | | Distributor: | United States Government Printing Office | | Mail: | 732 N. Capitol Street, NW
Washington, DC 15250-7954 | | Phone: | (866) 512-1800 DC Area: (202) 512-1800 | | Fax: | (202) 512-2104 | | E-mail: | ContactCenter@gpo.gov | | Ordering: | Web site: http://bookstore.gpo.gov/index.html . Contact the GPO Order Desk, 7:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. EST, Monday through Friday (except Federal holidays). | | Order URL: | Web Address | | Cost: | 19.00 per booklet | | Avail. in Qty: | Yes | | Bulkrate: | Contact U.S. Government Printing Office | | ISBN: | 9780160879418 |
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