Items Tagged with 'DGAs'

Without more funding, public schools that serve meals to nearly 30 million kids per day likely will struggle to meet requirements in the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans that call for increased protein, severe limitations on added sugars, and a move away from ultra-processed foods, school officials and other experts say.

Here is how policymakers, and groups inside and outside the food and ag industries, responded to the guidelines. Soybean growers were alarmed by statements calling into question the potential for seed oils to harm Americans’ health. Other sectors raised concerns about the focus on highly processed foods. 

The Trump administration released its new Dietary Guidelines for Americans, emphasizing consumption of whole grains over refined grains and recommending that Americans avoid added sugars and “highly processed foods.”