They are also requesting districts email details about the great activities your organization completed in 2016 to
support sodium reduction and flavor - boosting in school meals, as well as your upcoming plans — we would love to feature your organization in our upcoming partner e-newsletters!
Not exact matches
Similarly, Big Food likely also
supports the cap on
sodium reductions (salt is 1/3 of Big Food's palatability arsenal; see: Michael Moss's Salt Sugar Fat) as well as the requested change to a la carte rules (who profits from all that frozen pizza schools want to serve every day?)
SNA strongly
supports the new school meal limits on calories and unhealthy fats, mandates to offer students larger servings and a wider variety of fruits and vegetables, requirements that half of all grains offered be whole grain rich and initial
sodium reductions.
Although there were some concerns that the proposed third - tier of
sodium reduction would have a negative impact on dairy items (like cheese and yogurt) down the line, there was a high level of
support for the proposed dairy changes in the meal pattern guidelines in general.
Recent studies that examine links between
sodium consumption and health outcomes
support recommendations to lower
sodium intake from the very high levels some Americans consume now, but evidence from these studies does not
support reduction in
sodium intake to below 2,300 mg per day, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine.
In fact, says Jan A. Staessen, MD, the senior author of the study and the head of the hypertension laboratory at the University of Leuven, in Belgium, the findings «do not
support the current recommendations of a generalized and indiscriminate
reduction of [
sodium] intake at the population level.»
The authors of an accompanying journal editorial said this study and previous ones «
support modest
reductions in
sodium intake among persons consuming high -
sodium diets,» along with a healthy diet.
Mr. Hanneman noted that the recommendations of the HHS Preventive Services Task Force, the Cochrane Collaboration cited by Dr. Hu, and the Canadian guidelines have all concluded that there is insufficient evidence to
support the
reduction of dietary
sodium.