Comparison of methodological quality between the 2007 and 2019 Canadian dietary guidelines.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

With significant shifts in the dietary recommendations between the 2007 and 2019 Canadian dietary guidelines, such as promoting plant-based food intake, reducing highly processed food intake and advocating the practice of food skills, we compared their differences in guideline development methods.

Design

Two reviewers used twenty-five guided criteria to appraise the methods used to develop the most recent dietary guidelines against those outlined in the 2014 WHO Handbook for Guideline Development.

Setting

Canada.

Participants

2007 and 2019 dietary guidelines.

Results

We found that the 2019 guidelines were more evidence-based and met 80 % (20/25) of the WHO criteria. For example, systematic reviews and health organisation authoritative reports,

SUBMITTER: Dai Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10200617 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature