The 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans will be out later this year. The guidelines provide evidence-based nutrition information and advice to help Americans make healthy choices about food and beverage in their daily lives. Nutrition For Dummies, 7th Edition, will include the latest information, including what readers need to know about the upcoming report and its suggestions for living a nutritionally-sound life. New and updated information includes: Focus on life stages: For the first time, specific guidance will be included for pregnant women, as well as infants and toddlers from birth to 24 months. Dietary patterns: What is the relationship between dietary patterns (at each stage of life) and disease Obesity and dementia: A study has found that obesity in midlife is linked to a greater risk of dementia later in life. The end of the peanut allergy : Peanut allergies could become a thing of the past as breakthrough research from the University of South Australia develops a radically novel vaccination thats poised to cure the potentially life threatening condition. Eating disorders: New research on DNA samples from thousands of people with anorexia has found a link to genes involved in regulating metabolism, as well as those connected with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders.