A conflict between nutritionally adequate diets and meeting the 2010 dietary guidelines for sodium.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Compliance with dietary guidelines means incorporating multiple foods and nutrients into everyday diets, to be consumed in smaller or larger amounts. Feasibility studies can help determine whether one nutrient guideline comes into conflict with another. For one half of the U.S. population, the 2010 dietary guidelines for sodium were set at 1500 mg/d.

Purpose

To test the compatibility of the 1500 mg/day sodium goal with nutrient-adequate diets.

Methods

Analyses, conducted in 2010, used U.S. federal nutrient composition and dietary intake databases to create modeled food patterns for six gender-age groups using linear programming techniques. The food patterns were designed to meet nutritional standards for 27 nutrients as the mean sodium content was progressi

SUBMITTER: Maillot M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3262982 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature