Marion Nestle’s Food Politics<http://www.foodpolitics.com> ________________________________ Some food guides are unafraid of sustainability<http://www.foodpolitics.com/2016/03/some-food-guides-are-unafraid-of-sustainability/> Posted: 29 Mar 2016 05:52 AM PDT I’ve just heard about the new Netherlands food guide. It emphasizes sustainability. According to an article in National Geographic’s The Plate,<http://theplate.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/23/another-nation-trims-meat-from-diet-advice/> The Netherlands Nutrition Centre says it is recommending people eat just two servings of meat a week, setting an explicit limit on meat consumption for the first time. Here’s what the Netherlands food guide<http://www.voedingscentrum.nl/nl/gezond-eten-met-de-schijf-van-vijf.aspx> looks like. [Capture] Google translator calls this a pyramid, and explains: “Moreover, the Pyramid helps you eat more environmentally friendly broadly.” Ours, of course, looks like this<http://www.choosemyplate.gov/>. I’m guessing the USDA is working on a new food guide in response to the 2015 Dietary Guidelines<http://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/>. These do not mention sustainability at all—the S word. [f0bf4e4433] If you want to check out food guides from other countries, see FAO’s pages on food-based dietary guidelines<http://www.fao.org/nutrition/education/food-based-dietary-guidelines/en/>. You can search the site by regions and countries. Fun! Email delivery powered by Google Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States
