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Comment Now: Reduce Added Sugars in Dietary Guidelines!
USDA and HHS need Dietary Guidelines for Americans that are consistent with current science about no added sugars for children younger than 2, and a lower recommended limit of added sugars among a person's daily calories!
Added sugars are contributing to an obesity crisis among our youngest children. More than four in 10 (45%) white children have had a sugary drink by age 2 and nearly three in four (74%) Latino children have.
The Union of Concerned Scientists suggest that, even though the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommended that added sugars should be limited to 10% of a person’s daily calories, the science suggests this threshold should be lower (no more than 6%). They also suggest science-based recommendations of no added sugar for children younger than 2.
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