title: [Should dietary recommendations be revised?].
abstract: The dietary recommendations of the Second Swiss Nutrition Report are in part based on incomplete knowledge about nutritional patterns of the Swiss population and on controversial results of relations between nutritional status and health, thus do not fulfill completely the WHO requirements for dietary guidelines. A new set of recommendations would not be based on better knowledge. However, efforts to prevent the widespread chronical diseases, e.g. by dietary measures are understandable. We therefore recommend to apply dietary guidelines never without considering their controversial incomplete scientific basis and to prevent by this a possible negative impact of dietary guidelines.
authors.affiliation: Medizinisch-geriatrische Klinik, Kantonsspital Basel.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Eichholzer
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Brubacher
mesh_terms: D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000517:prevention & control; D004032:Diet; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D009751:Nutritional Requirements; D009752:Nutritional Status; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control; D013557:Switzerland; D014944:World Health Organization
vernacular_title: Müssen die Ernährungsempfehlungen revidiert werden?