NUSC 1165 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Overnutrition, Myplate, Saturated Fat
15 Sep 2018
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First dietary recommendations were in great britain for the army force. 1894: first dietary recommendations published by us dept of agriculture. 1917: first food guide, how to select foods, released. Broken into meat & milk, cereal, vegetables and fruit, fats and fatty foods, sugar and sugary foods. 1930s: new food guide released, containing 12 food groups. 1946: usda releases the basic seven, new national food guide. 1956: the seven food groups were updated to the basic four . The usda and us dept of health and human services releases the. 1989: dietary reference intakes (dris) replaces rdas due to prevalence of obesity and chronic disease. Set of reference values based on age-group and gender, used for planning and assessing diets of people in the us and canada. How the focus of dietary guidance has changed. 1956: milk, fruits and vegetables, meat, cereal. 1992: pyramid, shows which foods should be eaten more frequently than others (level on pyramid)
