The Dietary Guidelines for Americans are jointly issued and updated every 5 years by the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). They provide authoritative advice about consuming fewer calories, making informed food choices, and being physically active to attain and maintain a healthy weight, reduce risk of chronic disease, and promote overall health.

Recommendations from the Dietary Guidelines for Americans are intended for Americans ages 2 years and over, including those at increased risk of chronic disease. The Guidelines encourage Americans to focus on eating a healthful diet — one that focuses on foods and beverages that help achieve and maintain a healthy weight, promote health, and prevent disease.

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010 are the 7th edition released since 1980 and remain the current edition until the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2015 are released.

Gateway to U.S. Government information on nutrition

Web site is devoted to disseminating the information produced by the Rudd Center as well as directing users to non-center related resources. Full text policy reports as well as podcasts and a legislation database.

Detailed nutrition information, plus unique analysis tools that tell you more about how foods affect your health and make it easier to choose healthy foods.

USDA's Local Food Directories help you locate farmers markets, on-farm markets, CSAs, and food hubs. The directories are managed and operated by the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), a USDA agency with the core mission of facilitating the fair and efficient marketing of U.S. agricultural products.

The Food Access Research Atlas:

Presents a spatial overview of food access indicators for low-income and other census tracts using different measures of supermarket accessibility;
Provides food access data for populations within census tracts; and
Offers census-tract-level data on food access that can be downloaded for community planning or research purposes.

What can you do with the Atlas?

Create maps showing food access indicators by census tract using different measures and indicators of supermarket accessibility;
View indicators of food access for selected subpopulations; and
Download census-tract-level data on food access measures.