Their efforts may result in a new AI when the Dietary Guidelines for Americans are revised in 2010.

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To improve access to healthy, affordable foods, local elected officials commit to implementing healthy and sustainable food service guidelines that are aligned with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans in all municipal and county venues that serve food.

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Designed after the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the new rules require schools that participate in federally funded school lunch programs to offer fruit and vegetable daily and in larger quantities than in the past, serve only fat-free or low-fat milk, and limit calories by age.

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While the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs) recommend consuming three servings of fat free or low fat milk and milk products daily, the reality is that most Americans only consume about half of the recommended servings.

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The federal government's Dietary Guidelines for Americans states that children ages 4 to 10 consume between 400 and 670 calories at each meal, depending on their age, gender and physical activity levels.

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These changes represent the first major revision to school meal requirements in more than 15 years, and they come on the heels of recent updates to the Federal Government's Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

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Figuring out what I could and should eat, via "Dietary Guidelines for Americans, " published jointly by the USDA and the Department of Health and Human Services, meant three hours of slogging through an 84-page downloaded file.

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