2: Guidelines For Dietary Guidance
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Learning Objectives
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
- Describe US Dietary Guidelines and apply towards building healthy eating patterns
- Define personal nutrient needs according to estimated energy requirements and Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI)
- Identify and apply components of food labels to assess and compare the nutritional value of foods
- Design a healthy eating pattern
- 2.1: Understanding the Bigger Picture of Dietary Guidelines
- US dietary guidelines are based on evolving scientific evidence and are updated every five years. The goals of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines are to prevent nutrient inadequacy, promote health, reduce chronic disease, and decrease the prevalence of overweight and obesity. To have a healthy eating pattern, reduce the intake of sodium, saturated and trans fats, cholesterol, added sugars, and refined grains. Increase consumption of fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy products, dietary fiber, and oils.
- 2.2: Understanding Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI)
- Nutrient-intake recommendations set for healthy people living in the United States and Canada are known as Dietary Reference Intakes. The DRIs includes the AI, EAR, RDA, and UL for micronutrients and the AMDR ranges for energy-yielding macronutrients. The DRI provide a set of standards for researchers and government policy-makers, and specifies nutrient consumption guidelines for individuals.
- 2.3: Discovering Nutrition Facts
- The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act made it a law that foods sold in the United States have a food label that provides the accurate contents of nutrients within them. A Nutrition Facts panel gives information on the amount of servings per container, the amount of calories per serving, and the amounts of certain nutrients. The percent DV is the percentage of the amount of the nutrient in the food in relationship to its recommended intake.
- 2.6: National Goals for Nutrition and Health- Healthy People 2020
- Healthy People 2020 is a health initiative with a ten-year objective of helping Americans improve health and well-being, and to live long, healthy lives. The goals of Healthy People 2020 are founded upon a determinants of health approach, which means they are reflective of the circumstances in which people are born, live, and work, as well as the conditions that shape their circumstances such as money, power, and resources at the local, national, and global levels.