Saturday, March 15, 2014

Federal Dietary Guideline Committee Focused on ‘Population Behavior Change’, 'Lifestyle Interventions'

The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee on Friday emphasized the need for the group to institute “population behavior change” in order to engineer healthier Americans. DGAC Chair Barbara Millen said the upcoming report would serve as the “foundation for public policy and food nutrition, physical activity, and health-related areas.” The group will release new recommendations for federal food policy in the 2015 report. Millen said the “potential is vast” for their recommendations, which deal with everything from “sustainability” in the food supply to “carbon footprints,” food deserts, alcohol consumption, and obesity “interventions.” “We have an overweight and obesity epidemic,” she said. As a result of this “epidemic,” the committee is focusing on ways to change Americans’ eating habits. Nelson emphasized that current European research has strongly encouraged “more of a plant-based diet” to address ecological sustainability, but said it is “not strictly a vegetarian diet.”...more

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