Hop Le Thi, Van Tran Khanh, Thanh Hoang Kim
National Institute of Nutrition. Hanoi, Vietnam.
Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2011;20(3):495-9.
The food based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) is a crucial tool for nutrition education and communication in Vietnam. Together with the changes of socio-economic situation, Vietnam needs to deal with different nutritional problems including malnutrition, overweight and undiversified diets at the same time. From 1995 to the present, three versions of FBDGs have been developed and revised in a period of every 5 years. The FBDGs, Food Guide Pyramid and Food Square made a good set of nutritional education tool which were disseminated through a wide range of activities and communication channels. The evaluation of FBDGs will be carried out before its revisions to reflect eating patterns and lifestyles of consumers whom the nutritional education programs wish to reach. In developing countries like Vietnam, the socio-economic situation is changing over short period of time. Therefore, the assessment of appropriateness and implementation progress of the FBDGs is necessary and should be done after a period of every 5 or 10 years. The implementation of the FBDGs should be closely connected with the activities of the National Plan for Nutrition and should have involvement from multi-sectoral organizations. Training, monitoring and evaluation for implementation of the FBDGs are essential for the success of guiding consumers to convert advices into action. The lessons learned from previous FBDGs' implementation can be used to develop a new version of FBDGs that is more appropriate.
以食物为基础的膳食指南（FBDGs）是越南营养教育与交流的重要工具。随着社会经济形势的变化，越南需要同时应对包括营养不良、超重和饮食单一等不同的营养问题。从1995年至今，每隔5年就会制定并修订三个版本的FBDGs。FBDGs、食物指南金字塔和食物广场构成了一套很好的营养教育工具，通过广泛的活动和交流渠道进行传播。在修订FBDGs之前将对其进行评估，以反映营养教育项目希望覆盖的消费者的饮食模式和生活方式。在越南这样的发展中国家，社会经济形势在短时间内不断变化。因此，有必要每隔5年或10年对FBDGs的适宜性和实施进展进行评估。FBDGs的实施应与国家营养计划的活动紧密相连，并且应有多部门组织的参与。对FBDGs实施情况的培训、监测和评估对于成功引导消费者将建议转化为行动至关重要。从之前FBDGs实施中吸取的经验教训可用于制定更合适的新版本。
