Question

The USDA food patterns encourage consumers to eat more vegetabls, fruits, whole grains, seafood, mill and milk products. this is easy enough to do if one includes these foods in the diet. Harder to follow is the recommendation to decrease sodium, saturated fat, trans fat, refined grains and foods and beverages with solid fats and added sugar. Why is the latter recommendation so hard to achieve in the American diet?

Answer 1

Answer: The recommendations is so hard to achieve in the American diet as there are various factors which influences the diet. At present people have no time to indulge themselves in proper dieting. Salt is the main ingredient which provide taste to the food and hence consumption of sodium can not be avoided. People tends to have coffee as well as caffeinated beverages which make it difficult to avoid sugar intake. To bring change in behavior is more difficult and this is the reason people consider hard to achieve American diet.