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The top five health
organizations are endorsing a
unified diet plan designed to help prevent major
illnesses,
such as heart disease and cancer.
The American Heart Association's Nutrition Committee,
along
with the American Cancer Society, the American Dietetic
Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the
National Institutes of Health, have developed a dietary
plan called the Unified
Dietary Guidelines. The plan
recommends that a typical day's healthy diet should
include
- No more than 10 percent of
calories from saturated fat and
- No more than 30 percent of total
calories from all types of fat.
- 55 percent or more of total daily
calories should come from complex carbohydrates
such as those found in cereals, grains, fruits
and
vegetables.
- Dietary cholesterol should be
limited to 300 milligrams a day.
- No more than six grams or one
teaspoon of salt each day.
- To choose most of what they
consume from plant-based sources.
- To eat five servings of fruits and
vegetables.
- To eat six servings of breads,
pastas and cereals every day.
"The good news is that we don't
need one diet to prevent
heart disease, another to decrease cancer risk and yet
another to prevent obesity and diabetes," says Dr.
Richard
J. Deckelbaum, a member of the AHA's Nutrition Committee
and a pediatrician at New York Presbyterian Hospital in
New
York City.
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