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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.

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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.

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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!



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