The 2020 Dietary Guidelines will include recommendations for pregnant women, infants and young children. Which prompts the question: Why haven't they in the past?
By Laura Reiley Laura Reiley Reporter covering the business of food Email Bio Follow April 3 at 7:00 AM There’s troubling new evidence that the obesity epidemic might start in the delivery room, or even before.
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Agriculture Department have issued dietary guidelines for Americans every five years since 1980, but about babies and toddlers they’ve always been mum. The 2020 guidelines will attempt for the first time to provide strong, evidence-based recommendations for pregnant women, infants and young children.
In 2008, the British medical journal the Lancet published papers that identified the period from conception to 24 months as playing a powerful role in child brain development and future health. They found the consequences of malnutrition during that time were lifelong and irreversible, and linked to a predisposition to obesity, heart disease and other health problems.
Parents turn to “What to Expect When You’re Expecting,” Facebook groups and online community boards for prenatal and postnatal nutrition guidance. The federal government has been silent, so lots of other voices, many with profit motives, have crowded in, said Roger Thurow, author of the 2016 book, “The First 1,000 Days.”
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