The Academy's process for providing input to help guide the development of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans has resulted in significant successes and provided valuable input on questions of scientific process, applicability of the guidelines to the general public and ways to facilitate implementation of the dietary recommendations issued every five years by the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services. The Academy's comments related to the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines process are below.
The 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, which includes ten members of the Academy, has held six public meetings to "examine the science related to the topics and questions on nutrition and health identified by" USDA and HHS, which will take the Scientific Report from the committee to inform the final guidelines expected to be issued late in 2020.
12/29/2020 - The Academy is conducting a thorough review of the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans released on December 29 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
08/14/2020 - The Academy appreciates the input received by members to create the comments submitted on August 13.
08/11/2020 – Academy President Linda T. Farr presented the Academy's comments to the USDA and the HHS on the Scientific Report of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.
07/17/2020 - With the release of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee's Scientific Report, the Academy held a listening session to share details of the Academy's review and comment submission process.
07/15/2020 - The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee on July 15 released its Scientific Report of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.
06/10/2020 - The Academy submitted feedback on Draft Conclusions and research methodologies to the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee that will help shape their forthcoming Scientific Report.
06/01/2020 - The Academy asks USDA to move the report's deadline to October 2020, allowing for flexibilities to due external circumstances, including the government shutdown and the COVID-19 pandemic that have disproportionately affected communities of color.
01/24/2020 - The Academy provided the following oral comments at the January 24, 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee meeting.
