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. The Academy will be submitting public comments to the Scientific Report when issued and will be providing oral comments at the final public meeting on August 11, 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.
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.
08/18/2019 - The Academy shared recommendations and considerations from the Academy’s DGA Collaborative of member experts to assist the advisory committee in drafting its scientific report to inform the 2020-2025 DGAs.
07/11/2019 - Comments delivered to the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee for the committee's second public meeting.
04/05/2018 - The Academy has submitted recommendations for expanding and enhancing topics and scientific questions proposed by the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture.
