Steady Gains Toward Healthier Grains: A Grains for Health Foundation Update

摘要

Modern diet books demonize grain-based fooc as a root of individual weight management problems. Grains in diets have been reduced in portion size, ridiculed as empty calories, or even cut out of dietary patterns completely. However, current evidence-based dietary guidance recommends consuming about half of an individual's caloric intake from carbohydrates. With the rise in popularity of whole grain products and increasing awareness of alternative grain sources, the grains community has a unique opportunity to shift the reputation of grains from empty and problematic to nutrient dense and full of nutrition and culinary opportunities. The grains community has a long history of working with public health officials to enhance the food supply in responseto nutrient needs. Flour enrichment and fortification have decreased public health issues related to B-vitamin and iron deficiencies and neural tube birth defects. The current obesity epidemic now calls on the grain community to once again be leaders when responding to the public health need of making available more nutrient-dense, lower-energy options.