What’s New in the 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans: Key Shifts and System-Level Impacts

This continuing education course reviews the major updates in the 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, including shifts in messaging, nutrients of concern, and system-level implications. It also reviews how advisory committee recommendations were translated into final guidance, including what was adopted, modified, or not implemented and their reception.

Course content appeared in the 2026 July/August issue of Today's Dietitian Magazine.

Learning Objectives

After completing this continuing education course, nutrition professionals should be better able to:

  1. Identify key differences between the 2020–2025 and 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
  2. Describe updated recommendations for nutrients including added sugars, sodium, saturated fat, and protein.
  3. Explain how advisory committee recommendations were incorporated into the final guidelines.
  4. Evaluate the potential system-level and population health impacts of the updated guidelines.

Additional Information

CDR Activity Type: 
102
CPE Level: 
2
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 2.00 CDR
Course opens: 
07/13/2026
Course expires: 
07/12/2029
CE Club cost:
$12.00
CE Club cost:
$0.00
Cost:
$24.00
Rating: 
0

Course content was written by Alexandria Hardy, RDN, LDN, a writer and dietitian located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

The faculty and planners for this activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

An "ineligible company" includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.  This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).

This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).

RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner's discretion.

Available Credit

  • 2.00 CDR

Price

CE Club cost:
$12.00
CE Club cost:
$0.00
Cost:
$24.00
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