Dietary Guidelines for Americans

In the United States, high rates of obesity and chronic disease impose serious consequences on the population’s health and health care system. Primary care providers are critical to broad prevention efforts aiming to reduce the burden of chronic disease in the nation and play an important role in addressing lifestyle behaviors that can result in illness and premature death. Unhealthy dietary behaviors largely contribute to morbidity and mortality in the United States despite national efforts to improve the nutritional quality of the typical American diet. This article discusses a comprehensive set of national evidence-based recommendations known as the Dietary Guidelines for Americans that can support primary…

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  U.S. Department of Defense
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  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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  U.S. Department of Agriculture
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  University of Pennsylvania
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  Stony Brook University
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  Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
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  Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
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  Office of Disease Prevention
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  Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion