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About Dietary Research: Guidance- & Policy-Related Research
Much of our dietary research has direct application to food guidance and policy. For example:
- Our analyses of fruit and vegetable intakes substantiated more stringent
national health objectives within Healthy People 2010 than had
been used previously. A major ongoing initiative is aimed at improving estimates
of the percentage of persons meeting those objectives.
- Soon after the release of the fifth edition of the Nutrition and Your Health:
Dietary Guidelines for Americans, we prepared a detailed analysis of
each guideline, published as a supplement to the Journal of Nutrition. Each paper reviewed available assessment methods to
evaluate the progress on meeting the guideline and examined the existing data to
provide a benchmark and identify gaps and limitations.
- We also collaborated with the US Department of Agriculture's Economic
Research Service and Cornell University to support a conference on "US Dietary
Guidelines: Research and Policy Needs in the Nutrition, Health and Agriculture
Sectors." We coauthored the keynote paper for the conference, which estimated
the agricultural gaps that would need to be filled for the population to meet
the guidelines, currently and in the future, based on census projections of
demographic shifts (view
summary).
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