• Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 (PDF 3.6 MB)

• Executive Summary of Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 (PDF 76 KB) (en Español - PDF 139 KB)

• Consumer Brochure: Finding Your Way to a Healthier You: Based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (PDF 255 KB)

• Key Recommendations

• Chronology

• Frequently Asked Questions

• Media Graphics (high resolution) and Audio Clips:

  • Dietary Guidelines cover

  • Consumer Brochure cover

  • Selected Illustrations: Food Groups, Nutrition, On the Go, and Physical Activity.

  • WAV audio files from remarks by Secretaries Thompson and Veneman
    

• Archived Webcast:

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  • For assistance, contact (301) 496-4357 or toll free (866) 319-4357.

Additional Resources
Related Topics

• Food Safety (www.foodsafety.gov)

• Food Labeling (Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA, HHS)

• Physical Activity (President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports)

• Alcohol (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH, HHS)

Tools

• Adult Energy Needs and BMI Calculator (Agricultural Research Service, USDA)

• DASH Eating Plan (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, HHS)

• Food Guide Pyramid (U.S. Department of Agriculture)

• Measuring Physical Activity Intensity (National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC, HHS)

Campaigns

• Healthy Lifestyles (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)

• 5 A Day (National Cancer Institute, NIH, HHS)

• Verb (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HHS)

• Milk Matters (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, HHS)

General Health and Nutrition Information

• www.healthfinder.gov (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)

• www.nutrition.gov (U.S. Department of Agriculture)

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Check out other Nutrition and Fitness Information Listed below:

• Interesting Diet Facts
• Blood Pressure and Cholesterol Information
• Vitamin Chart
• American Dietetic Association
• American Heart Association
• Bonebuilders
• First Do No Harm
• Gatorade Sports Science Institute
• National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
• Shape up America
• The National Institutes of Health's Office of Dietary Supplements
• The National Strength and Conditioning Association
• The University of Arizona, College of Agriculture Cooperative Extension, Nutrition, Exercise & Wellness
• The Vegetarian Resource Group
• Tufts University Nutrition Navigator
• Department of Nutritional Sciences
• NCAA Nutrition and Performance

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