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children should consume a low fat diet beginning at age two, as earlier guidelines had advised, the 1995 guidelines recommend that such changes be made gradually between the ages of two and five; that all major changes in a childs diet be accompanied by monitoring of growth by a health professional at regular intervals; and that children and teenagers not drink alcohol at all. The 1995 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee also strongly recommended the development of dietary guidelines specifically for children, and scientists in the Life Sciences Research Office are now reviewing the scientific literature on childhood nutrition under contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services.

Groziak and Millers review article in the Journal of Nutrition draws from position statements of the National Cholesterol Education Program, American Academy Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition and a later Commission on Nutrition, Joint Working Group of the Canadian Paediatric Society and Health Canada, American Dietetic Association, American Heart Association; meetings and workshops held by the American Health Foundation and Kelloggs, American Society for Nutritional Sciences (formerly the American Institute of Nutrition), American College of Nutrition, American Society for Nutritional Sciences; and surveys by the American Dietetic Association, International Food Information Council, and the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, and the National Dairy Council.

Several themes appeared over and over throughout the six years and the dozen organizations or studies covered in the review:

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The need for young children to move gradually, not suddenly, to a restricted fat diet. Position statements from these groups in the early 1990s appear to have been instrumental in the change of the 1995 guidelines to recommend that early childhood be considered a transition period during w
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Contact: Gregory Miller
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American Society for Clinical Nutrition/American Society for Nutritional Sciences
28-Sep-1998


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