Posted on 04/08/2015 4:40:24 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
Nutrition: As the federal government wrestles with how much meat and cholesterol it will recommend in its updated dietary guidelines, the public should be asking why the government is involved in this issue at all.
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Where’s that pic of First Lady Michael Lavaughn screaming “Eat what I tell you to eat!”
As if most of us follow these guidelines.
We are more driven by advertising or the medical community.
... why the government is involved in this issue at all.
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Easy answer: the various food lobbies have money. Elected officials have a strong appetite for money. That money changes hands and rules get generated.
This isn’t rocket science. It isn’t even nutritional science. It’s political science.
“why the government is involved in this issue at all”
I think it started w/cigarettes. The same arguments that justify government’s advocacy of non-smoking naturally lead to nutrition advocacy.
If you think the gov should back off nutrition but not back off tobacco, consider this:
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Woody Allen, of all people, pretty much nailed this in Sleeper, where a faux newscast admonished that previous reports of specific foods being 'bad' for you had been proven to be incorrect.
The quickly quashed story has been how SALT standards have been based on no science whatsoever for the past 20 years.
Still no mention how potassium and water are the other 2 legs of the three-legged stool for all human life called the “sodium-potassium pump”.
American Heart Association quickest of all to poo-poo any thought or mention of changing the salt intake standards.
Most interesting missing is the proven science of how too LITTLE salt is far more deadly than a small bit too much salt.
It’s also about cost control...in Uncle Sam’s mind, if he’s going to fund Medicare and Obamacare, then he believes that he has a vested interest in forcing people to be healthy so that he can ration it.
Do you know how many olders are being dx’ed with dehydration in ERs?
I directly attribute it to the salt restriction requirement.
Am awre of hosp in Boston who removed salt from access for STAFF and PATIENTS. Two years of no salt. They slowly slunk it back into the menu and on the tables and trays.
The fine results of big government deciding what kind of medical care we should have, what type of education we need, and how we should live our lives. Conservative have warned about this for decades.....sadly to no avail.
My daughter is an RN (specialty in gerontology) and she sees the same thing in Georgia
Flush twice, otherwise there won’t be enough water to push them down the pipe...
The guidelines are problematic in two ways:
1. When we realize that our diets of junk food and high-carb crap is making us sick, what we switch to us usually the low-fat, high-carb diet of the government guidelines. And discover that their “healthy” diet makes things worse. So we give up thinking that diet makes no difference. The truth that we never discover, because of the low-fat government guidelines, is that diet is critical to getting healthy, but that a healthy diet is low-carb, high-fat.
2. These guidelines determine what our kids get fed in school. And our kids are getting sick because of them.
Fat is not unhealthy, but protein should be the bulk of most people’s diet. Carbs make people fat, but fat has twice the calories per gram. Unless you live in the arctic, you probably don’t need that many calories and you don’t need to be in ketosis to be healthy.
It’s really about giving your body what it needs, rather than listening to your appetite.
“Most interesting missing is the proven science of how too LITTLE salt is far more deadly than a small bit too much salt.”
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I have seen my late mother in the emergency room babbling as if she had completely lost her mind, making no sense whatsoever. The problem was low sodium, an hour or so later after being given intravenous fluids to restore her sodium level she could carry on a normal conversation.
Wow, I had completely forgotten that movie!
Do they make drains that large?
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