An unbiased, sustainable, evidence-informed Universal Food Guide: a timely template for national food guides.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although national food guides are designed, ostensibly, to translate scientific evidence with respect to food, dietary patterns, and health, their development has increasingly become a corporate/political process as well as scientific one; often with corporate/political influences overriding science. Our aim was to construct an unbiased, sustainable, evidence-informed Universal Food Guide to serve as a template for countries to develop their unique guides, thereby, provide a valid resource for health professionals, health authorities, and the public.

Methods

To address our aim, we conducted an integrative review of multiple evidence-informed sources (e.g., established databases, evidence syntheses, scholarly treatises, and policy documents) related to four areas:

SUBMITTER: Dean E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11487974 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature