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Every five years, the USDA and DHHS release a new set of Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs)<\/a>, informed by a multi-step federal review of diet and health research.<\/p>\n As a Professor of Nutrition<\/a> and contributing Cengage author, I developed a 2025-2030 DGA companion resource<\/a> that will help introductory nutrition instructors engage their students in conversations about the new guidelines. Inviting students to identify commonalities and differences across guidelines acts as a great discussion-starter and builds critical thinking skills.<\/p>\n This resource will evolve and expand over the coming months as MindTap Courses for Nutrition<\/a> integrate the new guidelines.<\/p>\n The resource guides instructors in comparing the 2025-2030 DGA with previous guidelines and other international guideline sets.<\/p>\n Encouraging students to evaluate how nutrition-related evidence informs nutrition guidance helps foster scientific thinking. I\u2019ve included a link to the Scientific Foundation for the Dietary Guidelines for Americans<\/a>\u00a0to explain the process used for developing the 2025-30 DGAs. A table beginning on the second page of this report summarizes which Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee recommendations were accepted and which were rejected.<\/p>\n Example prompts: <\/strong>What are the commonalities and differences? What do consumers need to apply the graphic to their eating patterns?<\/p>\n It\u2019s my hope that this resource will help you save time on content updates and guide conversations with students around the new guidelines.<\/p>\nWhy this resource matters<\/h2>\n
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