Dietary Guidelines

Guiding American Diets

USDA and the Department of Health and Human Services launched a scientific review of the Dietary Guidelines, which is mandated every five years to consider updates to the government's nutrition policy and education recommendations. In written comments and oral testimony before the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, IDFA stressed the importance of continuing to recommend at least three daily servings of dairy products and of keeping milk and dairy as a "food group to encourage." IDFA also called for allowing discretionary calories from additives such as added sugar, which can increase consumption of nutrient-dense foods like flavored milk and yogurt.

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