[Solved] Nutrition

Assignment Prompt & Instructions

**Performance Task: Evaluating the** _**Dietary Guidelines for Americans**_

**Scenario:** You will act in a consultancy role for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), undertaking an evaluation of the _Dietary Guidelines for Americans._

Click each of the items below to reveal the assessment requirements.

#### [Part 1 – Reviewing the _Dietary Guidelines for Americans_](https://tempolearning.brightspace.com/content/enforced/46478-NU4001/Assessment.html#collapse_acc_1)

Your first task in the evaluation is to review the current Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Select a specific key recommendation within the guidelines, and identify scientific evidence used to inform the chosen guideline/key recommendation. At this stage, you are not looking for new scientific evidence, rather you are reviewing the existing research used to support and inform a specific key recommendation within the current guidelines.

Complete **Part 1** of the **template** provided, ensuring you:

– Select and describe a key recommendation within the current guidelines and the reason for your choice.
– Identify **three (3)** resources cited in the current guidelines that include supporting scientific evidence used to inform the selected guideline/key recommendation.

– Resources should be of varied research type from peer-reviewed journals (e.g., observational research, epidemiological research, randomized controlled trial).
– Provide references using full APA formatting.
– In your own words, explain how each resource informed the selected guideline/key recommendation.

#### [Part 2 – Recommendations for an Updated Guideline](https://tempolearning.brightspace.com/content/enforced/46478-NU4001/Assessment.html#collapse_acc_2)

It is important that the _Dietary Guidelines for Americans_ undergo evaluation to include the most up-to-date information. Your next task is to make recommendations for an updated edition of the guideline/key recommendation by finding up-to-date, supporting, and/or contrasting scientific evidence. Through your research, you may find scientific evidence to strengthen or weaken the current guideline/key recommendation. To prepare for reporting back to the USDA Dietary Guidelines Committee, you will critically analyze the resources you find to inform your recommendations.

Complete **Part 2** of the **template** provided, ensuring you:

– Identify **three (3)** resources (dated within the past 5 years of the publication date of the current guidelines) that provide more recent scientific evidence to inform the guideline/key recommendation.

– Resources should be of varied research type from peer-reviewed journals (e.g., observational research, epidemiological research, randomized controlled trial).
– Provide references using full APA formatting.
– In your own words, explain how each resource either strengthens or weakens the current guideline/key recommendation.
– Consider:
– Common themes and/or differences found within the recent scientific evidence
– If the wording or intent of the selected guideline/key recommendation should be changed

#### [Part 3 – Application of the Guideline](https://tempolearning.brightspace.com/content/enforced/46478-NU4001/Assessment.html#collapse_acc_3)

Your final task is to consider how you may apply your findings to a specific setting, such as home, school, workplace, community, or retail operation. Following your learning from Part 1 and Part 2, you will determine how the guideline/key recommendation might be applied in a setting familiar to you and the ways in which you might influence policy to help others meet this in practice.

Complete **Part 3** of the **template** provided, ensuring you:

– **Select** a specific setting to focus on. **Describe** your chosen setting and the reason for your choice.

– In the home
– In schools
– In the workplace
– In the community
– In retail operations
– **Recommend three (3)** ways to influence policy in your selected setting to help people meet the guideline/key recommendation.
– **Propose** educational opportunities that could help people in your selected setting understand the guideline/key recommendation.

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