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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/taking-a-closer-look-at-dietary-guidelines/">Taking a closer look at dietary guidelines</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted August 10, 2007 at 10:30 AM by Courtney Albon</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Every five years the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services revise a list of Dietary Guidelines that are hailed as the foundation of healthy living for the average American.&nbsp; Unfortunately, the average American is unaware of what lies beneath this elusive title. In creating the guidelines, what the government is really doing is sifting the facts from the often contradictory hype purported in the media.&nbsp; They’ve created a master list of positive lifestyle choices that, if followed, could prevent a host of diseases and begin to pull Americans out of the current obesity slump.&nbsp; “Especially considering the epidemic of obesity we face in our country, people need all the help they can get in understanding the relationships between food consumption, a healthy diet, physical fitness and good health,” said Susan H.…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/taking-a-closer-look-at-dietary-guidelines/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/taking-a-closer-look-at-dietary-guidelines/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/taking-a-closer-look-at-dietary-guidelines/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/taking-a-closer-look-at-dietary-guidelines/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-nutrition/">her-nutrition</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/healthy-eating/">healthy-eating</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-news/">her-news</a><br /><br /> </P>