title: Food science challenge: translating the dietary guidelines for Americans to bring about real behavior change.
abstract: Food scientists and nutrition scientists (dietitians and nutrition communicators) are tasked with creating strategies to more closely align the American food supply and the public's diet with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA). This paper is the result of 2 expert dialogues to address this mandate, which were held in Chicago, Illinois, and Washington, D.C., in early October 2010 between these 2 key scientific audiences. It is an objective that has largely eluded public health experts over the past several decades. This document takes the perspective of food scientists who are tasked with making positive modifications to the food supply, both in innovating and reformulating food products, to respond to both the DGA recommendations, and to consumer desires, needs, and choices. The paper is one of two to emerge from those October 2010 discussions; the other article focuses on the work of dietitians and nutrition communicators in effecting positive dietary change.
authors.affiliation: SR Strategy LLC, Washington, DC 20036, USA. rowe@srstrategy.com
authors.forename: Sylvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rowe
authors.forename: Nick
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Alexander
authors.forename: Nelson
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Almeida
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Black
authors.forename: Robbie
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Burns
authors.forename: Laina
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bush
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Crawford
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Keim
authors.forename: Penny
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kris-Etherton
authors.forename: Connie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Weaver
mesh_terms: D032763:Behavior Control; D004032:Diet / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000208:ethnology; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005523:Food Supply; D005524:Food Technology; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006292:Health Priorities; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D018673:Nutrition Policy; D024382:Professional Role; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce