Visualization of food-based dietary guidelines - Examples
- Autor(en)
- Juergen S. Koenig
- Abstrakt
Food-based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) are the primary instrument for the translation of nutrient-based guidelines into practice for the general population. The key concepts for the development of FBDGs as outlined by the report of a joint FAO/WHO consultation in 1996 are to address dietary patterns, to be practical, to be comprehensible, and to be culturally acceptable. These key concepts need to be considered particularly when planning to visualize FBDGs, since the visualization is the major mode of information transfer and the first - and quite frequently the only - contact with the guidelines. For the visualization of dietary patterns it is recommended that total diets rather than nutrients or individual foods should be addressed, although there are some examples which were successful in addressing specific foods and food groups. The design of FBDGs should be flexible for use by people with different lifestyles as well as people of different ages and with different physiological conditions. However, the visualization of FBDGs is a marketing instrument, which differs in no way from regular and commercial marketing instruments. To be successful, these instruments need to be specific for the target population. With increasing power, influence, and coverage of computer-based instruments, the individualization of FBDGs has been facilitated. New strategies have therefore been developed to provide guidelines tailored to individual needs and preferences, as can be seen in the concept of the new food guide pyramids by the US Department of Agriculture. Whether these guidelines are successful needs to be awaited, their major problem being initiative required from the consumer rather than delivering the information appropriately and conveniently to the target population.
- Organisation(en)
- Department für Ernährungswissenschaften
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Universität Wien
- Journal
- Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism
- Band
- 51
- Seiten
- 36-43
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 8
- ISSN
- 0250-6807
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000103566
- Publikationsdatum
- 07-2007
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 303009 Ernährungswissenschaften
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Medicine (miscellaneous), Nutrition and Dietetics
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/d67c8f46-10c9-4661-9738-aa5e3f9405f0