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New Dietary Recommendations Released: Some Surprising ChangesThe Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, which is a panel of experts that guides the federal government’s official advice on nutrition, has formally released its new recommendations. The recommendations will be used to craft the government’s 2015 Dietary Guidelines, expected to be released in the fall. The committee made several surprising changes in its recommendations, including removing warnings about consuming too much dietary cholesterol, as it did not find a substantial relationship between dietary cholesterol and heart disease. Other highlights from the committee’s report include:
While these recommendations are not the final guidelines, the federal government tends to follow them closely when crafting the Dietary Guidelines. The Dietary Guidelines have an important influence on nutrition in the US; among other things, they inform the school lunch program, which serves 30 million children, and they help shape food assistance programs. Source: New York Times Copyright © 2024 TraceGains, Inc. All rights reserved. |