A Conflict Between Nutritionally Adequate Diets and Meeting the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Sodium

Background Compliance with dietary guidelines means incorporating multiple foods and nutrients into everyday diets, to be consumed in smaller or larger amounts. Feasibility studies can help determine whether one nutrient guideline comes into conflict with another. For one half of the U.S. population...

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Published in:American journal of preventive medicine 2012-02, Vol.42 (2), p.174-179
Main Authors: Maillot, Matthieu, PhD, Drewnowski, Adam, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Age Factors
Algorithms
Deviation
Diet
Female
Food
Goals
Guidelines as Topic
Humans
Internal Medicine
Male
Middle Aged
Nutrients
Nutrition Surveys
Nutritional Requirements
Sex Factors
Sodium
Sodium, Dietary - standards
Young Adult
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Summary:Background Compliance with dietary guidelines means incorporating multiple foods and nutrients into everyday diets, to be consumed in smaller or larger amounts. Feasibility studies can help determine whether one nutrient guideline comes into conflict with another. For one half of the U.S. population, the 2010 dietary guidelines for sodium were set at 1500 mg/d. Purpose To test the compatibility of the 1500 mg/day sodium goal with nutrient-adequate diets. Methods Analyses, conducted in 2010, used U.S. federal nutrient composition and dietary intake databases to create modeled food patterns for six gender–age groups using linear programming techniques. The food patterns were designed to meet nutritional standards for 27 nutrients as the mean sodium content was progressively reduced from levels observed in the 2001–2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) down to 1500 mg/day. Results For adults aged
ISSN:0749-3797
1873-2607
DOI:10.1016/j.amepre.2011.10.009