MyPlate-Northeast: A Tool for Promoting Sustainable Diets? It Takes - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

MyPlate-Northeast: A Tool for Promoting “Sustainable Diets”?

Jennifer Wilkins Daina E. Falk Professor of Practice Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition Syracuse University

It Takes a Region Conference NESAWG November 12-14, 2015 Saratoga Springs, NY

What is a Food Guide?

“A food guide translates recommendations on

nutrient intake into recommendations for food

• intake. It provides a conceptual framework for

selecting the kinds and amounts of food of various types which together provide a nutritionally satisfying diet.”

(Welsh, Davis & Shaw.1992. “Development of the Food Guide Pyramid. Nutrition Today 27(6):12-23.)

Primary Outcome

Nutrients Foods Diets

Health

New Framework for Dietary Guidance

Communication & Education Theory Diet and Health Relationship Internal and Environmental Factors Food Choices Optimal Health Disease Prevention Food Guides & Dietary Guidelines

Food System Sustainability

Economic Vitality, Natural Resources, Community Development

Regional Food Systems Food Justice

1992 Food Guide Pyramid

USDA/DHHS Food Guide Pyramid, 1992

Northeast Regional Food Guide

http://www.agriculture.ny.gov/AP/agservices/myplate_ne.pdf

Issues and Questions

— What is the capacity of the Northeast region to meet food needs of the population? — Is the diversity of agricultural production adequate to supply human nutrient needs? — To what extent can goals (beyond nutritional well- being) be accomplished through dietary guidance? — How are food choices and food supply related? — How can an understanding of regional food systems shape coordination, trade and cooperation among

• thers regions?

USDA Climate Change Hubs

5 Dimensions of Food Access

— Availability — Accessibility — Affordability — Accommodation — Acceptability

Caspi et al. Health and Place 2012

Availability

Accessibility

Affordability

Acceptability

Accommodation