2010 Dietary Guidelines—Too Many Messages?

Recently, the Secretaries of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (Thomas Vilsack) and U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (Kathleen Sebelius) unveiled the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA). This much-anticipated 7th edition (revised every 5 years since 1980) focuses on obesity. Over the past 30 years, the rate of obesity in America has increased from 15% to more than 34% and from 4% to more than 20%, among adults and children, respectively. With this rapid rise in obesity comes an incr…