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Washington

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'Grain chain' aims to
protect six servings at
Guidelines meeting
WASHINGTON - A 3-minute presentation will look to influence dietary
guidelines for grain-based foods. A
"grain chain," which includes groups
in the grain-based foods industry, has
prepared the presentation for the Jan.
13-14 meeting of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, said Lee
Sanders, senior vice-president of government relations and public affairs
for the Washington-based American
Bakers Association.
"You can't say as much as you want
to say in 3 minutes," she said. "There
are so many positive things to say
about grains."
The "grain chain" presentation will
seek to protect the recommendation of
six servings of grain per day from the
2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, Ms. Sanders said.
She added the presentation also will
need to let the committee know why
baked foods are linked to sodium consumption.
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans
2010 stated, "Some sodium-containing
foods are high in sodium, but the problem of excess sodium intake also is due
to frequent consumption of foods that
contain lower amounts of sodium, such
as yeast breads (which contribute 7% of
the sodium in the U.S. diet)."
Nobody from the 2010 guidelines
advisory committee is on the current
advisory committee, Ms. Sanders said.
Thus, the presentation will need to
educate the committee that people consume a lot of sodium from baked foods
because they eat a lot of baked foods,
not because each single baked food
item has a high percentage of sodium.
Ms. Sanders said it is hoped Joanne
Slavin will give the 3-minute presentation. A registered dietitian and a professor in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of
Minnesota, Dr. Slavin was a member
of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.
The recommendations from the current committee will serve as a basis for
the Dietary Guidelines for Americans
2015. The advisory committee first met
in June. Judging from that meeting, the
committee may come up with a broader
scope of recommendations than past
committees, Ms. Sanders said.
The grain chain plans to submit
comments after the second meeting in
January. MBN
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