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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November 9, 2009
Dietary Guidelines Committee Reviews Nutrition Evidence -
August 3, 2009
New York City Calls for Less Sodium in Cheese -
May 11, 2009
Dietary Guidelines Committee Hears from Nutrition Experts -
April 6, 2009
IDFA Urges IOM Committee on Sodium to Focus on Consumers, Overall Diet -
January 19, 2009
IOM Committee to Consider Ways to Reduce Sodium in American Diet
