Dietary guidelines
What's behind the dietary guidelines
BY: Cheyenne Robinson, Clay Turner Group: 4
Foods and nutrients to increase:
- increase vegetables and fruit intake
- eat variety of vegetables
- intake variety of fat-free or low-fat milk products
- choose variety of protein
- increase amount of seafood
ANSWER: seafood contributes a range of nutrients. moderate evidence shows that consumption of 8 ounces per week is associated with reduced cardiac deaths.
use oils to replace solid fats where possible
- Americans consume more solid fats but less oil than desirable
- Oils are a concentrated source of calories
- Americans should replace solid fats
Replace protein foods that are higher in solid fats with choices that are lower in solid fats, calories, and oils
- oils contribute essential fatty acids
- vitamin E
- replacing some saturated fatty acids (solid)
- unsaturated fatty acids (oils)
- lowers both total and low-density