MyPlate: Understanding the Dietary Guidelines for Americans

An important goal of the U.S. government is to help guide adults and children to be as healthy as possible. One way to do so has been to make dietary recommendations as visual representations of nutrition guidelines. The most recent update of the Dietary Guidelines came out in 2020, and it uses an updated MyPlate visual model. 

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National Center for Health Research’s Public Comments on Simplifying Meal Service and Monitoring Requirements in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs

The recently proposed changes would drastically weaken school nutrition by creating large loopholes in school nutrition requirements. Despite claiming that the goal is to offer “greater ability to offer wholesome, nutritious, and appealing meals to students,” the result of these guidelines would be to seriously harm children’s access to healthy food options. Therefore, we strongly disagree with the proposed changes to school nutrition requirements. 

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