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Can you expand “Eat and drink nutritious, low calorie foods,” into a 150-word paragraph without changing the meaning of the original seven-word sentence? That feat is beyond my ken, but easily within the range of the pleonastic authors who wrote (and wrote and wrote and wrote) the 571-page Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. They managed not only 150, but 168 words:
Humans require a wide range of essential micronutrients and macronutrients for normal growth and development and to support healthy aging throughout the life cycle. Essential nutrients, including most vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fatty acids, water and fiber, must be obtained through foods and beverages because they cannot for the most part be endogenously synthesized, or are not endogenously synthesized in adequate amounts to need recommended intakes. Understanding the extent to which the U.S. population and various age, sex, and racial/ethnic groups within the population achieve nutrient intake requirements through available food and beverage intake, including foods and beverages that are enriched or fortified, is an important task of the DGAC. Notably, the DGAC considers that the primary source of nutrients should come from foods and beverages. Nutrient-dense forms of foods (those providing substantial amounts of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients and relatively few calories) are recommended to ensure optimal nutrient intake without exceeding calorie intake or reaching excess or potentially toxic levels of certain nutrients. [Page 74, line 4.]
Time to put those nutritionists on a word diet.