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care provider. And now on to the show. Welcome to Helix Talk episode 41. I'm your co-host

Dr. Kane. I'm Dr. Schumann. And I'm Dr. Patel. Today we're talking about the new dietary guidelines that were recently released by the U.S.

government.

Yeah, so keep in mind, these are more of a general guidelines.

There are different dietary recommendations are published for various different disease

dates, as most of the listeners may know.

One of the examples would be like a dash diet for hypertension.

But this guideline is more of a general dietary approach for all Americans, two years and

older, to maintain good health and prevent chronic diseases.

So the emphasis here is maintain good health and prevent chronic disease, meaning if you

have a chronic condition such as

diabetes, hypertension, other cardiovascular condition, you should be following guidelines that come

from either American Heart Association or American Diabetes Association on top of the general guidelines.

And this was published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department

of Agriculture. And it was actually a subcommittee. It's called the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. And this was intended to cover five years of time period. So it was published in 2015 and it's intended to live until 2020 where it will be re-evaluated at that time. And the one thing they did this year is in this five-year period, there's really a focus

on eating patterns rather than solely a focus on food groups and nutrients.

We always go back to things like the food pyramid and looking at those as ways to say you've

got to do this and this.

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