Year

Milestone

Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030 (10th edition) published with new visual icon

• View the 10th edition
• View the New Food Pyramid at RealFood.gov
• View the Daily Servings Guide

Additional scientific reviews conducted to inform the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030

• View the Scientific Foundation for the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030 with appendices
• View the Appendices for the Scientific Foundation for the Dietary Guidelines for Americans

2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee formed to review the evidence, Scientific Report submitted to USDA and HHS

• View the Scientific Report of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee
• View written public comments submitted to:
  • USDA and HHS on the Advisory Committee’s Scientific Report
  • The 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee on their scientific reviews
  • USDA and HHS on the scientific questions to be examined by the Committee

Project to explore applying systems science in the development of the Dietary Guidelines carried out, report published

• View the Systems Science Report Summary
• View Systems Science Full Report

Congress mandates a study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) to review updates made to the process to develop the Dietary Guidelines for Americans

• View the NASEM study page: Evaluating the Process to Develop the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025

Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025 (9th edition) published

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2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee formed to review the evidence, Scientific Report submitted to USDA and HHS

• View the Scientific Report of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee
• View written public comments submitted to:
  • USDA and HHS on the Advisory Committee’s Scientific Report
  • The 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee on their scientific reviews
  • USDA and HHS on the scientific questions to be examined by the Committee

Congress mandates a study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) to review the process to update the Dietary Guidelines for Americans

• View the two reports through the NASEM study page

Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2015 (8th edition) published

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Agricultural Act of 2014 passed in Congress mandating that the Dietary Guidelines expand to include recommendations for children from birth to age 2 and pregnant women

• View the Agricultural Act of 2014

2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee formed to review the evidence, Scientific Report submitted to USDA and HHS 

• View the Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. During its tenure, the Advisory Committee received 972 written comments on its scientific reviews
• USDA and HHS received more than 29,000 written public comments on the Advisory Committee’s Scientific Report

Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010 (7th edition) published

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2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory committee formed to review the evidence, Scientific Report submitted to USDA and HHS

• View the Scientific Report of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. During its tenure, the Advisory Committee received nearly 1,000 written comments on its scientific reviews

USDA’s Nutrition Evidence Library (now the Nutrition Evidence Systematic Review team) established

• Visit the NESR website

Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2005 (6th edition) published

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2005 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee formed to review the evidence, Scientific Report submitted to USDA and HHS

• View the Report of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee on the Dietary Guidelines, 2005. During its tenure, the Advisory Committee received 435 written comments on its review

Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2000 (5th edition) published 

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2000 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee formed to review the evidence, Scientific Report submitted to USDA and HHS

• View the Report of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee on the Dietary Guidelines, 2000. During its tenure, the Advisory Committee received 165 written comments on its review

Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 1995 (4th edition) published

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1995 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee formed to review the evidence, Scientific Report submitted to USDA and HHS

• View the Report of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee on the Dietary Guidelines, 1995. During its tenure, the Advisory Committee received 284 written comments on its review

National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990 passed into law directing the Secretaries of USDA and HHS to jointly issue a report titled Dietary Guidelines for Americans at least every 5 years

• View the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990

Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 1990 (3rd edition) published

• View the 3rd edition

1990 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee formed to review the evidence, Scientific Report submitted to USDA and HHS

• View the Report of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee on the Dietary Guidelines, 1990. During its tenure, the Advisory Committee received over 80 written comments on its review

Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 1985 (2nd edition) published

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1985 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee formed to review the evidence, Scientific Report submitted to USDA and HHS

• View the Report of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee on the Dietary Guidelines, 1985. During its tenure, the Advisory Committee received hundreds of written comments on its review

Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 1980 (1st edition) published

• View the 1st edition

Healthy People: The Surgeon General's Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention published 

• View the Surgeon General’s Report

Dietary Goals for the United States (the “McGovern Report”) published

• View the McGovern Report