New dietary guidelines for Americans

The Government have released the first update in five years after their "dietary guidelines for Americans".

But despite significant talk of the US obesity crisis, many of the major cornerstones of these earlier guidelines remained intact.

Upside risks tainted the guidelines stress the need for physical activity to do and encourage eating more foods like fruits, vegetables, seafood, Wholegrains and cut back on sodium, trans fats, sugar and refined grains.

To translate the information into the daily life to help the guidelines provide advice such as:

Enjoy your meal and eat less.Avoid oversized Portionen.Stellen half of your plate of fruits and vegetables. Go to the fat-free or low fat (1%) Milk. Compare sodium in foods like soup, bread and frozen meals - and choose foods with lower numbers. Drink water instead of sugary drinks.

Here some of the daily limits or targets are set by the new guidelines:

Fat intake - 20 to 35 percent of total calories. saturated fatty acids - less than 10% of total calories (mono and polyunsaturated fats can be substituted).Trans-fats - less than 1% of Kalorien.Cholesterin - less than 300 mg.Fiber - 14 g per 1000 Kalorien.Kalium - 4,700 mg.Fruits and vegetables, at least 2.5 Tassen.Raffinierte grains - less than 3 oz.Sodium - at 2,300 mg of sodium a day and less than 1,500 mg of all African Americans and people with high blood pressure, diabetes, chronic kidney disease (including children), and and people, the older than 50.

The sodium recommendations have the American Heart Association, annoyed, ceiling wanted to see advice on reducing sodium intake on the entire population, not only for certain groups of individuals. AHA President, Ralph Sacco, MD, said this;

Output of sodium hits the target of led the fact that most Americans have high blood pressure or at risk to develop it during their lifetime. All of these support clear need for a national commitment to reduce sodium consumption to less than 1,500 mg per day for all Americans.

Personally, it bothers me that seem that these guidelines a regurgitation of final advice to be. But what you think, have the Government far was enough guidelines updated? What would you like see tackling?

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