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1 Introduction
Pages 19-26

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... . It also serves as a fundamental resource to the federal government to maintain the currency of its food and nutrition programs 1 National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990, Public Law 101-445, 101st Cong.
From page 20...
... As subsequent editions of DGA are developed, USDA and HHS consider collectively the previous DGAC Scientific Report, input from federal agencies, public comments, and existing resource documents, such as the Dietary Reference Intakes. 3 Nutrition assistance programs offered by USDA include the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; the National School Lunch and School Breakfast (School Meals)
From page 21...
... to conduct a comprehensive study of the process used by USDA and HHS to develop the DGA.5 The National Academies convened the Committee on Redesigning the Process for Establishing the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (2017 committee) to undertake the study.
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... Dietary Guidelines Scientific Advisory Committee to interpret the scientific evidence and draw conclusions. Recommendation 2: The secretaries of the U.S.
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... should clearly separate the roles of USDA Nutrition Evidence Library (NEL) staff and the Dietary Guidelines Scientific Advisory Committee (DGSAC)
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... . The Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies established a committee with expertise in nutrition; dietary assessment; food pattern modeling; systematic review standards and methodologies; clinical nutrition research; systems science; epidemiology; program design and evaluation; life cycle nutrition; public health nutrition; statistics/biostatistics; nutrition education; nutrition policy research and development; federal nutrition program planning; health impact analysis; and continuous process improvement methodologies.
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... A comparative analysis of the scientific methodologies, review proto cols, and evaluation processes used to develop the most recently issued guidelines as compared to recommendations included in the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2017 report titled Redesigning the Process for Establishing the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. • How did the process used to develop the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020–2025 (including scientific methodologies, review protocols, and evaluation processes)
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... In Chapter 2, the committee describes its interpretation of the task and its methodological approach to it. In Chapter 3, the committee discusses its analysis of the scientific methodologies, review protocols, and evaluation processes used to develop the 2020–2025 DGA, and specifically addresses each of the seven 2017 National Academies recommendations.


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