Dietary Guidelines

From fresh fruits to nutritious grains, the latest food guidelines are urging us to rethink what’s on our plates. Here’s what you need to know.

Every five years, the Dietary Guidelines are updated and released, based on current recommendations made by a scientific advisory committee.

The National Dairy Council announced the Smart Swaps Initiative to help with the challenges that school nutrition professionals face as they work to meet evolving USDA school meal standards.

The National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs play an important role in promoting the consumption of healthy foods, including dairy.

More than a dozen years after higher-fat milk was stripped from school meals to slow obesity in American kids and boost their health, momentum is growing to put it back.  Federal lawmakers have revived bills that would allow whole and 2% milk to be served again in schools, in addition to the skim and low-fat milk mandated since 2012.   ...

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is disappointed by some of the changes that are proposed in the Scientific Report of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.  One suggestion for the United States’ new dietary guidelines is moving beans, peas, and lentils from being a subgroup of the Vegetable category to being a subgroup of the Protein category “to align with evidence to encourage

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association slammed the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee’s recommendations last week replacing proteins like beef with beans, peas, and lentils.   "The preview of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee stands out as one of the most out-of-touch, impractical, and elitist conversations in the history of the process,” says NCBA VP of Government Affairs Ethan

The USDA and the Department of Health and Human Services recently announced the appointment of 20 nationally recognized scientists to serve on the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.  The Committee will review the current body of science on key nutrition topics and develop a scientific report that includes its independent assessment of the evidence and recommendations for USDA and HHS as t

The nomination process is now underway for Advisory Committee members that will determine the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. "They are scientists with expertise in nutrition, in public health, that produce a scientific report that they submit to the department; each round of the dietary guideline," said Janet de Jesus with the Department of Health and Human Services...

The ERS released new data last week showing schools are the richest source of dairy in children’s diets. The data comes from 2017-2018, for children between two and 19 years old. These foods provided an average of 1.99 cups of dairy products per 1,000 calories consumed each day. F ...