Healthy Living Newsletter
Americans Are Eating More Whole Grains
In the eight weeks immediately after release of the 2005 Dietary Guidelines, Americans started following the recommendation to eat more whole grains. Sales of whole grain breads increased 12 percent; whole grain rice went up 19 percent and whole grain breakfast cereals 16 percent. Compared to the same period a year earlier, shoppers bought 13 percent more pounds of whole grain products.
Guidelines recommend three to six servings of whole grains a day, with whole grain foods comprising one-half of all grains.
Source: Whole Grains Council, “Whole Grains from A to Z,” 2003 - 2006.
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