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More Omega-3s in the 2010 Dietary Guidelines? My perspective on the possible implications
The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA)will be released any day now.
What are the Dietary Guidelines and how do they affect my life? The Dietary Guidelines are essentially a report created by a committee of experts who reviewed the most up to date nutrition science and boiled it down to a series of summaries. The summaries are available for public comment, updated according to comments and lobbying and then published. The process of updating the science and releasing guidelines occurs every five years (the last go around in 2005 was 80 pages worth of guidelines), and it forms the basis of our nation’s nutrition policies and education as we progress into the next decade.
Most people are probably more familiar with theeducational materials that are developed by experts using the dietary guidelines, like the food guide pyramid (the updated consumer facing materials and messages generated from the DGA won’t be in effect until next spring)
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