Rigid adherence to the dietary intake recommendations of selected food guideline emblems would not lead to simultaneous compliance with the tenets of the revised 2000 American Heart Association Dietary Guidelines.

摘要

Food guideline emblems were examined in order to assess whether strict adherence to the tenets of a quantitative emblem would lead to compliance with the principles of the 2000 Revised Guidelines of the American Heart Association (AHA). Of 58 emblems examined, 13 national and 25 variant dietary guideline emblems provided quantitative behavioural recommendations. Emblems incorporated between 1/7 and 6/7 of the AHA recommendations, with a median of 2/7. Most often, emblems embodied compliance with AHA recommendations for a variety of fruits/vegetables (95%) and a variety of grain products (87%). The emblems did not provide clear guidance for 5 of the recommendations.