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The latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans have a brand new official slogan, which is this phrase.
What is "Eat Real Food"?
Reflecting a significant increase from past guidance, this is the new recommended daily serving range for protein foods.
What is 3 to 4 servings per day?
How many vegetable servings are recommended if you eat 2,000 calories a day?
What is 3 servings of vegetables?
This is the maximum percentage of total daily calories that should come from saturated fats, a limit that remains completely unchanged
What is less than 10%?
Dietary guidelines recommend steering clear of these two categories, which include packaged snacks like chips and cookies, and drinks like sodas and energy drinks.
What are highly processed foods and sugar-sweetened beverages?
The number of years between each new edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
What is five (5) years?
While past guidelines heavily restricted choices to low-fat or fat-free items, the 2025–2030 guidelines explicitly allow this type of dairy, provided it has no added sugars.
What is full-fat (or whole) dairy?
This ingredient should be listed first when reading a food label, to know it's a great source of grains.
What is whole grain?
For the general population aged 14 and older, daily sodium consumption must be limited to less than this amount.
What is 2,300 milligrams (mg)?
NC EFNEP curriculum will eliminate these three traditional descriptive terms when discussing dairy or meat choices with families.
What are "low-fat," "fat-free," and "lean"?
The final Dietary Guidelines for Americans serves as the foundation for these programs.
What is Federal Nutrition Assistance and Education Programs (including EFNEP)?
Under the new portion standards, 3 oz of meat or 1 egg equals a serving; this specific amount represents one serving of cooked beans, peas, or lentils.
What is 1/2 cup?
Down significantly from the previous recommendation of 6 daily servings of grains, this is the new range for whole grain consumption.
What is 2 to 4 servings per day?
When selecting cooking oils rich in essential fatty acids, the 2025–2030 guidelines explicitly advise prioritizing this specific oil.
What is olive oil?
Even though the terms "fat-free" and "low-fat" are being removed from health classes, participants are still taught to avoid this heart-unhealthy fat.
What is saturated fat?
Staying consistent with the previous Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the new Dietary Guidelines ALSO emphasize overall dietary patterns rich in whole foods, have a preference for whole grains, limitations on added sugar, saturated fat, and sodium, as well as increased intake of what?
What is fruit and vegetables?
This is the recommended daily intake goal for dairy items for a standard 2,000-calorie diet, which remains entirely unchanged from previous cycles.
What is 3 servings per day?
To help manage sugar intake and portion sizes, the guidelines state that 100% juice must be strictly limited or altered in this way.
What is diluted with water?
To help limit saturated fat intake to less than 10% of total calories, it is advised to limit these types of foods.
This program remains a trusted source for basic nutrition education, teaching people how to eat healthy on a budget and prepare meals at home.
What is EFNEP?
Reflecting a major structural change in how quantities are communicated to the public, the new guidelines shifted from measuring food groups in "cups" to this term.
What are "servings"?
It is recommended to swap this kind of cooking method with healthier alternatives such as baked, broiled, roasted, stir-fried, or grilled.
What is deep-fried?
1 cup raw or cooked fruit or vegetables, 2 cups leafy greens, or 1/2 cup dried all count as one of these standard measurements.
What is a serving? (or one serving)
Companies use names like brown rice syrup or sucrose to hide this ingredient, which now has its own special line on the Nutrition Facts label.
What is "added sugar"?
If an EFNEP participant asks about specific grams of protein needed per day, lab interpretations or medication-diet interactions, an educator must do this.
What is refer them to a qualified health professional?