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2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Webinar











Featured speakers



Kellie O. Casavale, PhD, RD

Nutrition Advisor, Division of Prevention Science

HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion





Monica Bharel, MD, MPH

Commissioner

Massachusetts Department of Public Health





Patricia Simmons

Chief, Bureau of Community Health and Wellness

Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services







































Supporting the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans:

The Role of State and Territorial Health Agencies

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

2:30 - 3:30 p.m. ET



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Since 1980, the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and of Agriculture (USDA) have jointly released the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (Dietary Guidelines). The Dietary Guidelines has guided policymakers, nutrition and health professionals, and other stakeholders to encourage U.S. citizens ages 2 and older to consume healthful diets that align with the body of current scientific evidence. The 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines, released in January 2016, expands upon and updates previous versions to align with current scientific evidence and medical knowledge.



State health agencies play a number of important roles in communicating these changes and supporting implementation of the Dietary Guidelines across all sectors and settings in their state. They have the partnerships and relationships necessary to spread the recommendations of the Dietary Guidelines to an extended audience of policymakers, health educators, health providers, and the public in order to educate them on the healthy eating patterns that support healthy lifestyles and can help prevent and reduce the risk of chronic disease throughout periods of growth, development, and aging as well as during pregnancy.



This webinar will provide an overview of the Key Recommendations of the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines and highlight how Massachusetts has utilized the Guidelines to develop nutrition standards for state agency food procurement and the work that Missouri has been doing to promote healthy eating through the Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy initiative.