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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025

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HHS Non-systematic Review

Source: Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Last Reviewed: 2020

Workgroups: Maternal, Infant, and Child Health Workgroup, Nutrition and Weight Status Workgroup

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020–2025, provides nutrition guidance for people across the lifespan. Every 5 years, a new edition that reflects the current body of nutrition science is released. The Dietary Guidelines forms the basis of federal nutrition policy and programs and helps guide local, state, and national health promotion and disease prevention initiatives.

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Objectives related to this resource (11)

Increase vegetable consumption by people aged 2 years and older — NWS‑07
Little or no detectable change
Increase consumption of dark green vegetables, red and orange vegetables, and beans and peas by people aged 2 years and over — NWS‑08
Little or no detectable change
Increase whole grain consumption by people aged 2 years and over — NWS‑09
Getting worse
Reduce consumption of added sugars by people aged 2 years and over — NWS‑10
LHI label
Little or no detectable change
Reduce consumption of saturated fat by people aged 2 years and over — NWS‑11
Getting worse
Reduce consumption of sodium by people aged 2 years and over — NWS‑12
Improving
Increase calcium consumption by people aged 2 years and over — NWS‑13
Getting worse
Increase potassium consumption by people aged 2 years and over — NWS‑14
Getting worse
Increase vitamin D consumption by people aged 2 years and over — NWS‑15
Improving
Reduce iron deficiency in children aged 1 to 2 years — NWS‑16
Baseline only
Reduce iron deficiency in females aged 12 to 49 years — NWS‑17
Baseline only

Suggested Citation

1.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture. (2020). Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025. Retrieved from https://health.gov/our-work/nutrition-physical-activity/dietary-guidelines/current-dietary-guidelines