USDA and HHS Declare New Dietary Guidelines to Help Address Obesity Epidemic in America

Recently, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius along with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the government’s evidenced-based, release of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The new nutritional guidelines are designed to help promote better health along with improved nutrition and to help decrease the widespread of obesity.

According to the USDA, there are more than one-third of children and adults in America that are overweight. The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 7^th edition, is aimed at placing more urgency on reducing high-caloric consumption while influencing the increase of physical activities.

“The 2010 Guidelines are being released at a time when the majority of adults and one in three children is overweight or obese and this is a crisis that we can no longer ignore,” said Secretary Vilsack. “These new and improved dietary recommendations give individuals the information to make a thoughtful choice of healthier foods and to complement those choices with physical activity. The bottom line is that most Americans need to trim our waistlines to reduce the risk of developing diet-related chronic disease.” The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans also focuses on encouraging Americans to add more healthy foods to their diet such as fat free and low-fat dairy products and whole grains while consuming less sodium (salt), trans fat, and added sugars (i.e., high-fructose corn syrup, fruit juice concentrates, and dextrose).

“Helping Americans incorporate these guidelines into their everyday lives is important to improving the overall health of the American people,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius. “The new Dietary Guidelines provide concrete action steps to help people live healthier, more physically active and longer lives.”

These Dietary Guidelines assist policymakers in applying and designing nutrition-related programs. They also form federal nutrition assistance programs such as Meals on Wheels for seniors and the school meal plans for grades K-12. The Guidelines provide tons of information and dietary advice to dieticians and many other health professionals.

More information on dietary guidelines can be found online, visit www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines and www.healthfinder.gov/prevention. The new 2010 Dietary Guidelines is available at www.dietaryguidelines.gov.

"Growth"

To Whom It May Concern:

I sincerely apologize for my absence, for I was taking time to become anew, reinvented. This particular blog is titled "Growth," because I strongly believe growth is important. Growing on the inside as well as the outside. I took time from blogging to do what I felt was needed. Now, in a new year, with new dreams, visions and goals I have returned. Along with growth changes can occur. In my case, they were good changes. Changes in which I have grown and matured.

Let me start off by saying, I am slowly progressing in the cessation of my main philosophy; my "Philosophy's as a Chiefaholic." I decided that's not where I would like to spend the rest of my life. Spending hours in a constant state of "false heavens" has been a personal struggle for years. The constant wants and dreams being misguided or even misled due to the fact of the love for that "chief." I plan to eventually quit and never fall victim again. Allowing me to expand my horizons even further than I could imagine. So now my blog; my mindset; my dreams; have slightly shifted. I think a new light, however, still maintaing true to myself.

Instead of me sounding angry and disturbed in my thoughts, I will now try to deliver more positive, uplifting opinions. My thoughts will no longer be clouded by the chief.

If you haven't noticed by now, the way that I type has changed. I'm more careful and attentive to what I want to say and how to say it. Looking back at past blogs, there are many errors that show how inexperienced my craft was. I'm more on the path to writing as a journalist; writing more "intelligently." You may, however, still not agree with everything that I have to say/write. And there is no disrespect in saying this but, "this is still my shit!"

I would like to thank you - truly thank you - for taking time to read this. This post is rather short because its an introduction to the growth. Encouraging you to continue to stick around with me and notice what growth has done for me. You won't regret it!

THEE one and only,

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