2021 Dietary Guidance to Improve Cardiovascular Health
Published: November 02, 2021
- The statement documents aspects of diet that improve cardiovascular health and reduce cardiovascular risk and focuses on dietary patterns and food-based guidance to promote cardiometabolic health.
- The statement, (i) emphasizes the importance of dietary patterns beyond individual foods or nutrients; (ii) underscores the critical role of initiating heart-healthy dietary habits early in life; (iii) presents common features of dietary patterns that promote cardiometabolic health, and (iv) discusses additional benefits of heart-healthy dietary patterns, beyond cardiovascular health.
- Challenges to adopting and adhering to such dietary patterns, include structural racism, neighborhood segregation, food insecurity, and targeted marketing of unhealthy foods are highlighted, thus framing a public health imperative.
Supporting Materials
- Commentary: The new American Heart Association dietary guidance to improve population-level cardiometabolic health: moving toward a heart-healthy food environment by Danielle E. Haslam, PhD and Shilpa N. Bhupathiraju, PhD
- Top Things to Know: 2021 Dietary Guidance to Improve Cardiovascular Health
- AHA News: 'Balance' is the key word in new dietary guidance for heart health
- News Release: New look at nutrition research identifies 10 features of a heart-healthy eating pattern
Recommended Reading
- Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025
- 2019 Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
- Scientific Report of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee: Advisory Report to the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (PDF)
- Diet and Lifestyle Recommendations Revision 2006
- Recommended Dietary Pattern to Achieve Adherence to the AHA/ACC Guidelines
- Rapid Diet Assessment Screening Tools for Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction Across Healthcare Settings