[Old Sarge]

Where’s that pic of First Lady Michael Lavaughn screaming “Eat what I tell you to eat!”

[cicero2k]

As if most of us follow these guidelines.

We are more driven by advertising or the medical community.

[InterceptPoint]

... 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.

[hosepipe]

[fruser1]

“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.

[Chickensoup]

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.

[Iron Munro]

[Smokin' Joe]

Flush twice, otherwise there won’t be enough water to push them down the pipe...

[MasterGunner01]

It's time to flush federal dietary guidelines AND Moochelle Obamination down the drain. Fixed it.

[trebb]

Have ignored all the dietary warnings - many of which have gone full circle and what was OK, then bad, is now OK again, and vice versa. At 62 I take supplements that I choose and am on zero prescription meds. I ate a boatload of eggs and bacon and pizza and cheeseburgers along the way, never got into diet sodas because the real sugar concoctions taste better, put a lot of salt on my red meats and love ice cream too.

The only "advice" I ever followed was to keep getting a lot of exercise and staying with it through the decades.