NOTHING BETTER TO DO: Federal Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Focused on ‘Population Behavior Change’.

DGAC Chair Barbara Millen . . . said the “potential is vast” for their recommendations, which deal with everything from “sustainability” in the food supply to “carbon footprints,” food deserts, alcohol consumption, and obesity “interventions.” . . .

There are five subcommittees within DGAC, one of which deals with “food sustainability” for the first time. During this discussion at the meeting on Friday, Miriam Nelson, a member of the DGAC committee, emphasized the need for the committee to focus on the environment.

“Footprint, you have to actually look at the whole footprint from the farm to fork, so to speak,” Nelson said.