Evaluating the Process to Develop the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025

In response to a request from Congress, the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conducted a study comparing the process to develop the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025 (DGA 2020-2025) to recommendations included in the previously published National Academies report, Redesigning the Process for Establishing the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. This report describes the findings of the committee and conclusions related to this assessment. Notably, this report does not evaluate the merits of the DGA 2020-2025 but evaluates the process by which they were created relative to the recommendations made in the previously published National Academies report.

Table of Contents

Front Matter Summary 1 Introduction 2 The Process to Create the Dietary Guidelines for Americans Is Both Complicated and Complex: Background and Context for Task 3 3 Methodological Approach to the Task 4 Assessing the Potential Implications of Fully Implementing the 2017 Recommendations to Redesign the Process to Establish the Dietary Guidelines for Americans: Committee Findings and Conclusions 5 Concluding Remarks Appendix A: Committee Member Biographies Appendix B: Elements of the 20202025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Process Appendix C: Data Sources Used by the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Appendix D: Open Session Materials