Dietary guidelines for sustainability: twelve years later

Article Abstract:

Joan Dye Gussow reviewed the progress of the sustainability initiatives of nutrition educators started in the 1980s. Of primary importance is the need to relocalize diets, i.e., people should be encouraged to do more local eating as there are three destructive forces that are a threat towards long-term food security. First is that the food from industrial agriculture are not sustainable over the long term. Free trade is also a threat to the food supply. Lastly are the eating habits of consumers who prefer processed foods.

Environmental aspects, Sustainable development, Nutrition, Speeches, lectures and essays, Transcript, Gussow, Joan Dye

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Helping consumers with low literacy interpret the new food label

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Two brochures were tested for their ability to help consumers with low literacy skills make wise food choices through the Nutrition Facts food label. Although 25% to 30% of American adults are functionally illiterate, majority of extant nutrition education materials are written at or above the ninth grade level. When the new brochures, namely, 'Are You Ready for New Food Labels' and 'How to Read the New Food Label,' were tested for reading levels, they were found to be helpful to consumers with low literacy skills.

Research, Evaluation, Labels, Consumer education, Consumer pamphlets

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Will pending health claims regulations motivate consumers to change dietary practices?

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The FDA has taken the right direction in using health claims regulations to motivate changes in consumers' dietary practices. However, a lot of work will have to be done. Addressing the needs and motivations of consumers will be necessary to provide basis for health claims and education/communication initiatives on relevant and pressing issues. In addition, consumer reaction should be tested during the development and implementation phases of the health claims and education initiatives.

Laws, regulations and rules, Food and nutrition, Health insurance, Consumers, United States. Food and Drug Administration

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