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The German Food Pyramid

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Abstract

Food-based dietary guidelines (FBDG) are used as key instruments in nutritional policy and nutritional education of the public. For that reason, FBDG should:

  1. 1.

    Reflect the national dietary situation.

  2. 2.

    Be practicable (foods included in the FBDG should reflect local dietary habits and must be accessible and affordable).

  3. 3.

    Be short and clear to be easily understood and remembered by the general public.

  4. 4.

    Be based on scientific evidence.

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Abbreviations

AID:

German agency for consumer information (Allgemeiner Infodienst für Ernährung Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz)

BMELV:

Federal Ministry of Food Agriculture and Consumer Protection (Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz)

DGE:

German Nutrition Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung)

FBDG:

Food-based dietary guidelines

n-3:

Omega-3

n-6:

Omega-6

USDA:

US Department of Agriculture

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  1. Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Arthur-Scheunert-Allee 114-116, 14558, Nuthetal, Germany

    Anne von Ruesten

  2. German Nutrition Society, Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

    Helmut Oberritter

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  1. Diabetes and Nutritional Sciences, School of Medicine, King's College London, 150 Stamford Street, London, SE1 9NH, United Kingdom

    Victor R. Preedy

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  3. Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street, London, W1W 6UW, United Kingdom

    Vinood B. Patel

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von Ruesten, A., Oberritter, H. (2013). The German Food Pyramid. In: Preedy, V., Hunter, LA., Patel, V. (eds) Diet Quality. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7315-2_11

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