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Posted on 02/22/2015 9:56:46 AM PST by EBH
New recommendations for U.S. dietary guidelines released on Thursday included the surprise suggestion that cholesterol should not be a nutrient of special concern—but added that sugar and saturated fat are still worth worrying about.
In a move that happens only every five years, the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, an independent group of 14 experts advising Health and Human Services (HHS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), released a proposed update for what Americans should be eating. The proposal is over 500 pages long, but summed up the guidelines as follows: ...
...But overall, nutrition experts were satisfied with the guidelines. “Wow. I love it. Really I am impressed,” says Dr. David Katz, director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center. “The emphasis seems to be ‘here is what your diet should look like overall and if it looks like this, you can’t go very wrong.’ The question is how we rally around it and how effectively it survives the political process.” (Katz was not on the advisory committee).
The new guidelines touch on sustainability, and the fact that the average American diet has a high environmental impact on greenhouse gas emissions, and land, energy and water use. They note that a diet that’s better for the environment is high in plant-based foods and lower in calories and animal-based foods. Some examples of these diets are the Mediterranean diet, a healthy vegetarian diet and a healthy U.S.-style diet
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Soylent green.
When politicians start dictating what you should eat, and what you should NOT eat, you know that the end result will be death by mass starvation.
Ask the soviets, the chinese, the north koreans, and all of the other communist regimes how that worked out for them .
If you control the food supply, you control the people. This is communisn 101 folks. Smack down any and all politicians and their cronies who may even remotely suggest controls on food production.
Is there a picture of this independent group ? Want to bet they look like Old Hippies
They are going to take our meat away from us. Watch...meat is going to become impossible to afford for the average American.
“They are going to take our meat away from us. Watch...meat is going to become impossible to afford for the average American.”
I had that exact same thought last night when working on my grocery list. Another “for me, but not for thee” from the elites.
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