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Energy balance
Healthful diets provide adequate amounts of energy and essential nutrients.
Dietary guidelines should ensure that diets are adequate in energy and essential nutrients.
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They provide adequate amounts of energy and essential nutrients, reduce risks for diet-related chronic diseases, and derive from foods that are available, affordable, safe, and palatable.
Why this rating
The claim is supported by established dietary guidelines.
Source
The Mediterranean (Diets and Disease Prevention)
Marion Nestle · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2000
DOI 10.1017/chol9780521402156.009
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