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Developing a measure for the dietary guidelines recommendation to eat a variety of foods.(Americans diet report)
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Family Economics and Nutrition Review
- Article date:
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March 22, 2004
- Author:
- Carlson, Andrea; Juan, WenYen
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Eating a variety of foods--especially whole grains, fruits, and vegetables--ensures the intake of many of the nutrients and other substances essential for good health. Measuring variety is complex, and many different definitions have been proposed. Eating a variety of foods is one of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans--though written in slightly different terms in some of the 5-year updates since the Guidelines were first introduced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) in 1980. An application of the variety guideline is a component of the USDA's Healthy Eating Index (HEI), a summary measure of overall diet quality that ...