New healthier beverage guidelines from Healthy Eating Research (HER).

Beverage choices contribute significantly to dietary and caloric intake in the United States. Choosing healthy beverages and other lower-calorie options, instead of high-calorie, sugar-sweetened beverages, has great potential to help Americans reduce caloric intake, improve diet quality, and reduce their risk for obesity.
Healthy Eating Research, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, convened an expert advisory panel to develop a comprehensive set of age-based recommendations to define healthier beverages: Healthier Beverage Recommendations. Implementation of the recommendations for healthier beverages across a variety of places and environments, such as child-care, schools, workplaces, parks, recreational facilities, and hospitals will help improve the health of all Americans.

Tracy Fox, MPH, RD
President, Food, Nutrition & Policy Consultants, LLC
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