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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July 16, 2010
IDFA Files Comments on Dietary Guidelines Committee Report -
July 9, 2010
Cheese Market News: Industry addresses dairy’s role in 2010 U.S. Dietary Guidelines -
July 9, 2010
IDFA Presents Oral Comments on Dietary Guidelines Report -
June 25, 2010
Associations Request More Time for Dietary Guidelines Comments -
June 18, 2010
Committee Report Confirms Daily Need for 3 Dairy Servings -
June 16, 2010
Panel Suggests Ways to Improve Nutrition -
June 15, 2010
New USDA Nutrition Guidelines Focus on Unhealthy Population -
June 15, 2010
Slash Sodium Intake, Panel tells Americans -
May 14, 2010
Dietary Guidelines Committee Holds Final Meeting; Does Not Issue Report -
April 23, 2010
Food Groups Call for Sound Science in Dietary Guidelines Updates -
April 21, 2010
FDA Should Set Limits for Sodium, Report Says -
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
