New USDA Dietary Guidelines Validated by UCSF Sugar Research
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UCSF News reports on new USDA dietary guidelines that were validated by a research team at UCSF
Just in time for flailing New Year resolutions, the U.S. Department of Agriculture have served up new dietary guidelines, including one of the biggest changes in recent years: For the first time, they've placed a clear limit of no more than 10 percent of daily calories from added dietary sugars.
The USDA guidelines, which are updated every five years based on the latest advances in nutritional science, specifically refer to sweetened foods such as sodas or candy, not naturally-occurring sugars [...]