We’ve taken another step toward 2015! The first meeting of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) was held on June 14-15 in Bethesda, Md. While we’d learned about the Advisory Committee members, this was the first chance to see the group working together and learn about the priority areas that they are considering for the 2015 Dietary Guidelines. Committee members were divided into three work groups, which will be writing nutrition questions to help focus the committee’s deliberations over the next several months. Just the focus areas of each work group give some insight into the possible content of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee report and the eventual content of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Work group number one is considering the area of the food environment, sustainability of the food supply and food systems, including agriculture and food production. Work group number two will be focusing on dietary patterns, looking at people’s behaviors, like choosing plant-based diets, viewing television viewing and eating or not eating breakfast, and their impact on health. Work group three will be looking at topics that are more traditionally addressed through the Dietary Guidelines: the impact of foods and nutrients on health. While we don’t know exactly what the committee will discuss over the next couple of years, the topics of the three work groups do give us an idea of the areas they will be considering: sustainability, nutrients of concern, food groups to encourage and the healthiest types of eating patterns. The next meeting of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee will be scheduled for the fall of 2013. IDFA will be submitting comments to the DGAC, so if you’d like to provide input on those comments, please contact me to join IDFA’s Nutrition Working Group.