Abstract
This is a translation from the Spanish of the first part of the report “Guías de alimentación: Bases para su desarrollo en America Latina” by the same authors, based on a workshop on that topic held in Caracas, Venezuela, 22–28 November 1987, sponsored jointly by the United Nations University and the Fundación Cavendes [1].
This first part of the report is concerned with quantitative nutritional goals that should be useful for nutritionists and health professionals in all countries. The second part, not presented here, gives suggestions for expressing these goals in terms of dietary guidelines adapted to the food availability and preferences of individual countries and populations in Latin America. The entire report, with sixteen background papers covering every major area of the nutritional goals and their rationale, is being published in Spanish as a special issue of Archivos Latinoamericanos de la Nutrición.