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Federal Committee: We Need Fat Interventions At Worksites
The Washington Free Beacon ^ | November 7, 2014 | Elizabeth Harrington

Posted on 11/08/2014 8:54:53 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The federal committee charged with creating nutrition guidelines for Americans is calling for fat interventions at workplaces.

During a presentation at the sixth meeting of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) on Friday, the committee said government needs to take “bold action” to fight obesity.

The solutions included “comprehensive” obesity interventions in “health care, the community, public health facilities, and work sites.”

“The public should monitor body weight and engage with providers in evidence-based approaches aimed at achieving and maintaining healthy body weight,” the panel said in a presentation on “Food and Nutrient Intakes, and Health.”

The committee, which is responsible for creating new nutrition standards that are used to create policy at the federal level, has previously called for moving Americans to “plant-based” diets, and using text message interventions to get people to lose weight.

“Bold action is needed to confront the Nation’s obesity epidemic and its devastating metabolic consequences,” a slide said during the presentation on Friday. “Quality of care guidelines need to be revised to incentivize personalized lifestyle and nutrition interventions.”

The committee said it is “imperative” to create obesity interventions that would bring in “trained interventionists and professional nutrition service providers” for “delivery in multiple settings.”

The panel claimed that 65 percent of adult females and 70 percent of adult males are overweight or obese, and argued that “environmental strategies” are needed to fight obesity.

“Complement health care and public health initiatives with collaborative programming in agriculture, retail, educational, and social service settings lifestyle for long-term adoption of health nutrition and lifestyle behavior,” read one recommendation.

Dr. Barbara Millen, the chair of DGAC, said obesity interventions must be expanded beyond health care settings.

“It’s pretty clear in a public health model with focus on the individual as well as the populations that all of this cannot be accomplished in a health care setting,” she said. “It really will take a broad strategy across environments … not only traditional health care, community settings. And these can’t be a siloed approach but across sectors to be effective.”

Dr. Anna Maria Siega-Riz, a nutritional epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, agreed and called for more monitoring of children’s weight, and for mandatory doctors visits.

“I was pretty much stunned, though I’m quite well aware of the chronic health care outcomes for young adults and preadolescents,” she said. “The more we can do to call for really bold action among these groups in a meaningful way of trying to combat this.”

“Not just going with schools, but when we think about the health care system, there are very little check ups required for kids,” Siega-Riz said. “We can make a strong call for more monitoring and help for this population before they actually carry out these outcomes for the rest of their lives.”

The committee continued to push for American’s to consume less meat, and recommended the Mediterranean diet, which consists of eating primarily plant-based foods.

Siega-Riz’s presentation recommended “lower consumption of red meats, moderate intake of alcohol, [and] low intake of sugar-sweetened foods and drinks.”

“The U.S. population should consume dietary patterns that are: rich in vegetables, fruits, whole grains, low-fat dairy, fish/seafood, legumes, lean meat, and nuts,” a slide said.

The committee has been criticized for putting environmentalism over food science. Angela Tagtow, who was appointed to oversee DGAC this summer, has called for “social justice” in food policy and says she takes an “ecological” approach to nutrition.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: angelatagtow; bigbother; corporateliberalism; cultureofcorruption; dgac; ebt; fatshaming; fda; foodnazi; foodnazis; foodstamps; moochelle; nannystate; obesity
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

21 posted on 11/08/2014 9:20:42 PM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

An “epidemic” of obesity that requires intervention? Aren’t these the same people that called concern about Ebola “hysteria”?


22 posted on 11/08/2014 9:22:42 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Army Air Corps

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/

I’m FAT!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2mU6USTBRE


23 posted on 11/08/2014 9:23:29 PM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Billthedrill

We may die of Ebola, but we’re going to be healthy when we die — or else.


24 posted on 11/08/2014 9:23:58 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon

LOL.

Most people need more protein.

More meat. But that doesn’t fly with the vegan crowd.


25 posted on 11/08/2014 9:24:50 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Well, folks, they got tired of harassing the smokers.

That is all I have to say about this.


26 posted on 11/08/2014 9:25:03 PM PST by berdie
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

When major famine comes as a consequence of restrictive energy policy and global cooling, the obesity police will be among the first to be eaten.


27 posted on 11/08/2014 9:26:43 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This just makes me want some ice cream with chocolate syrup.


28 posted on 11/08/2014 9:26:53 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Slyfox
“The public should monitor body weight and engage with providers in evidence-based approaches aimed at achieving and maintaining healthy body weight,”

Evidence like this?

http://authoritynutrition.com/23-studies-on-low-carb-and-low-fat-diets/

29 posted on 11/08/2014 9:27:26 PM PST by jdege
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To: Balding_Eagle

I hope the line isn’t long.


30 posted on 11/08/2014 9:28:33 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The mods stole my tagline.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Want to cut fat?

Gun them all down like Big Paybacc.

That is a permanent solution to the obesity epidemic.

But he was having a low fat lunch. Talk about irony.


31 posted on 11/08/2014 9:35:35 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

No, we need tar-and-feather interventions at power-mad overfunded Federal Bureaucracies.

“Evidence-based” rope and tree branch interventions will clearly also be required in some cases.


32 posted on 11/08/2014 9:41:16 PM PST by Junk Silver
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To: jdege
Since information has naturally seeped into the public about the harmful effects of high-fructose corn syrup, there has been a somewhat noticeable dip in the purchase of soft drinks containing HF corn syrup.

The government didn't do it by forcing people, nope, they listen to the news and make up their own mind.

33 posted on 11/08/2014 9:46:41 PM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Set up production lines, liposuction those bureaucrats, then refine the rendered product into biodiesel fuel. Vrooooooooom!


34 posted on 11/08/2014 9:48:21 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: RightGeek

Whatever happened to Obama’s Surgeon General Dr. Tublenski?
Well, that was not her real name, but she was a middle-aged black woman and notoriously overweight. Where/ when/ why did she go?


35 posted on 11/08/2014 9:53:05 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Oh boy, I can just see Barry sending some Federal bureaucrats to my office and forcing the fat ladies to submit to measurements with the body mass calipers. They are likely to lose a hand.
36 posted on 11/08/2014 9:54:07 PM PST by purplelobster
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To: Army Air Corps

[[agreed and called for more monitoring of children’s weight, and for mandatory doctors visits.]]

Which means they will soon be removing fat children from their families claiming child abuse- wonder when parents are going to start meeting and greeting these thugs at the door with ‘strong resistance’?


37 posted on 11/08/2014 9:54:10 PM PST by Bob434
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To: familyop
Set up production lines, liposuction those bureaucrats, then refine the rendered product into biodiesel fuel. Vrooooooooom!

Oopra and the Mooch would flood the market.


38 posted on 11/08/2014 9:59:08 PM PST by 867V309 (Crusade: the only solution.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

That’s something most Americans will look forward to, don’t you think?
You’re trying to enjoy a lunch break, but some federal food Nazi is there in your break room/construction site/cafeteria telling you what you can and cannot eat.
One more year of this B.S. .....


39 posted on 11/08/2014 10:00:55 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Balding_Eagle; All

LOL! I’ll take the 2nd socialist slob (Michael Moore comes to mind), provided we can lift him.

Fun post in a great thread BUMP!


40 posted on 11/08/2014 10:04:04 PM PST by PGalt
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