This guidance can help you choose a healthy diet and focus on preventing the diet-related chronic diseases that continue to impact American populations.

It is also intended to help you to improve and maintain overall health for disease prevention. Health professionals, including physicians, nutritionists, dietary counselors, nurses, hospitality meal planners, health policymakers, and beneficiaries of the USDA National School Lunch and School Breakfast program  and their administrators may find these guidelines most useful.  American consumers can also use this information to help make helathy food choices for themselves and their families.