2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Released on December 29, 2020 the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines featured recommendations developed and released by the U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS). It remained the federal Dietary Guidance until the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030 was released.
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The Start Simple with MyPlate campaign was launched via MyPlate.gov with the release of the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Advisory Committee Report
To support the development of the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, HHS and USDA established a Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee that reviewed the current body of nutrition science at the time, considered public comments, and provided advice to the Departments in its scientific report. The USDA and HHS Secretaries selected 20 nutrition scientists and physicians to serve on the Advisory Committee. The Committee held its first of seven public meetings on March 28-29, 2019. The Committee then submitted its scientific report to the Secretaries in July 2020.