Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies
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ISBN: 9781305886865
Author: Sizer, Frances , WHITNEY, Ellie
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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The Dietary Guidelines for America are a set of guidelines that provide guidance and advice to the people enabling them to achieve and sustain a healthy weight. The key recommendations majorly fall into four categories namely: balancing calories to manage healthy body weight; increasing intakes of certain nutrient-dense foods; reducing intakes of certain food, and food components and to build a healthy eating pattern.
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