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Appendix B: Summary of Committee's Major Recommendations
Appendix B: Summary of Committee's Major Recommendations
Pages 218-226
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STRATEGY 2: Alter federal programs that directly influence what Americans eat so as to encourage rather than impede the implementation of dietary recommendations. This effort should affect food assistance, food safety, and 218
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ACTION 5: Incorporate dietary recommendations into current rules and regulations governing commodity purchases. STRATEGY 3: Change laws, regulations, and agency practices that have an appreciable but indirect impact on consumer dietary choices so that they make more foods to support nutritionally desirable diets available.
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ACTION 2: Improve the National Nutrition Monitoring System and provide it with adequate resources. RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR STRATEGY 1: Promote dietary recommendations and motivate consumers to use them in selecting and preparing foods and in developing healthful dietary patterns.
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ACTION 2: Contribute to efforts to revise, or develop as appropriate, food-quality criteria (such as standards of identity and grading) , pricing structures, andfood product descriptors to promote the production of more nutritionally desirable food products.
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ACTION 4: Working as individuals or through professional societies, provide guidance to regulatory and legislative bodies concerned with the establishment of dietary standards and with rules and policies governing the production, harvesting, processing, preservation, distribution, and marketing offood products. ACTION 5: Specialists in human nutrition and food science, working through their professional organizations, should distribute practical information such as menus, recipes, and ideas for health promotion initiatives to private and public providers of meals.
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ACTION 2: Review materials on diet and health prepared for the public by various professional groups and organizations to achieve consistency and ensure compatibility with dietary recommendations. ACTION 3: Convene an ad hoc committee composed of authors and publishers of leading nutrition textbooks to develop a series of broad guidelines that publishers could use to provide in their publications consistent and authoritative information on dietary recommendations and their scientific rationale.
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ACTION 2: Public policy committees in nutrition, medical, and other health-related organizations should work to develop and pass legislation to require thatfoods served to children help them to meet dietary recommendations. The Child and Adult Care Food Program standard of USDA should be used as a quality .
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ACTION 2: Appoint a committee of experts in nutrition education, child development, social influence, and media to review past attempts to regulate television food advertising to children. ACTION 3: Appoint a standing committee to coordinate the vast number of media activities necessary to increase consumer knowledge about dietary recommendations and their application and to decrease consumer confusion.
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3. Continue research to develop new food products and modify both the production and processing of existing products to help consumers more easily meet dietary recommendations.
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