Feds: America Should Adopt ‘Plant-Based’ Diet

Free Beacon ^ | February 20, 2015 | Elizabeth Harrington

[Cheerio]

The federal committee responsible for nutrition guidelines is calling for the adoption of “plant-based” diets, taxes on dessert, trained obesity “interventionists” at worksites, and electronic monitoring of how long Americans sit in front of the television.

The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) released its far-reaching 571-page report of recommendations to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Thursday, which detailed its plans to “transform the food system.”

[DocRock]

Well the feds could simply restrict what EBT cards can buy. That was simple, wasn’t it?

[pallis]

A plant based diet is going to do wonders for type II diabetics. They will have to drop their calorie count down to less than 1000 a day, or turn into butterballs.

[NorthstarMom]

Very hard to get B vitamins with out eating meat & they are necessary for good mental health. Plus your brain needs fat and cholesterol from animal sources. I personally want to force vegetarians to eat meat just to cure their craziness.

[JaguarXKE]

I think the Fed should adapt a STFU and stay out of our lives approach to governance!

[Personal Responsibility]

Those are not the folks who will actually be monitored. The monitoring will be aimed toward those whose TV sets are tuned to Fox News.

[navet97]

We need to find out who is on this committee and demand their resignation!

[duffee]

This could mean work for the out of work islamist, if they caught you eating pork or watching religious programming, oh, there won’t be any religious programming except for islam, maybe reading a Bible, they could cut your head off or burn you alive. Better diet for us, jobs for islamist, two more problems solved by big government.

[markman46]

just for this i am going to buy a nice Rib eye and have a baked potato tonight for dinner.. screw the feds

[NorthstarMom]

Insane idea. Babies, toddlers and young children need cholesterol for proper bone and brain development. It’s why pediatricians say that all children need whole milk up to age 4. An entirely plant based diet would be very dangerous for kids.

Adults who say a few years of vegetarianism have done wonders for them have most likely benefited from eliminating processed foods and sugar as well as meat. They got the foundation from animal fat and protein in their early years so they can pull off a vegetarian diet now without immediate consequence to their physical and mental health.

[M Kehoe]

Feds: America Should Adopt ‘Plant-Based’ Diet

America should adopt a "Fed regulator based" diet.

A little salt, a little pepper...

5.56mm

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

“If it were up to me this entire committee would face a firing squad.”
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Why stop there?

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Yet another reason for Texas to secede from this corrupt union.

[goodnesswins]

COMMITTEE MEMBERS....names may not match titles due to formatting....

DGAC and Staff Membership
Scientific
Report of the
2015
Dietary Guidelines
Advisory Committee
1
201
5
Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Membership
Chair
Vice Chair
Barbara Millen, DrPH, RD
Millennium Prevention
Westwood, MA
Alice
H.
Lichtenstein, DSc
Tufts University
Boston, MA
Members
Steven Abrams, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
Ho
us
ton, TX
Frank Hu, MD, PhD, MPH
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA
Lucile Adams
-
Campbell, PhD
Georgetown University Medical Center
Washington, DC
Miriam Nelson, PhD
Tufts University
Boston, MA
Cheryl Anderson, PhD, MPH
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
Marian Neuho
us
er, PhD, RD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA
J. Thomas Brenna, PhD
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Rafael
Pérez
-
Escamilla, PhD
Y
ale School of Public Health
New Haven, CT
Wayne Campbell, PhD
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Anna Maria Siega
-
Riz, PhD, RD
The University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Steven Clinton, MD, PhD
The Ohio State
University
Columb
us
, OH
Mary Story, PhD, RD
Duke University
Durham, NC
Gary Foster,
PhD
(May
–
August 2013)
i
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
i
Dr. Gary Foster assumed a new position shortly after being appointed as a member of the
2015 DGAC. Due to the significant
demands of the new position, it became necessary for Dr. Foster to resign hi
s appoi

[Carthego delenda est]

“Very hard to get B vitamins with out eating meat & they are necessary for good mental health. Plus your brain needs fat and cholesterol from animal sources. I personally want to force vegetarians to eat meat just to cure their craziness.”

“Forcing” someone to do something against their will is the opposite of being a conservative. Being a vegetarian does not make one crazy. Being a libtard is being crazy, and there are many influences that contribute to the making of a libtard. Being a vegetarian ‘can’ be a symptom of such, and if a person is not careful about being a veggie, then malnutrition can contribute to libtardation.

BTW, B vitamins:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritional_yeast

[OneWingedShark]

CWII Spark Ping — The Working Man: “Just another button being pushed to get the ‘people’ to revolt and clear the decks for some good old ‘counter-revolutionary’ actions.”

[goodnesswins]

And, then SOME of their support staff......again formatting means titles may be mis matched

DGAC and Staff Membership
Scientific
Report of the
2015
Dietary Guidelines
Advisory Committee
7
Data Analysis Team
Shanthy Bowman, PhD
Data Analysis Team Lead
Food
Surveys Research Group
Agricultural Research Service
USDA
Naman
jeet
Ahluwalia
,
PhD, DSc, FACN
National Center for Health Statistics
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
HHS
Amy Lando, MPP
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Food and Drug
Administration
HHS
Patricia Britten, PhD
Office of Nutrition Guidance and Analysis
Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
USDA
Alanna Moshfegh, MS, RD
Food Surveys Research Group
Agricultural Research Service
USDA
Kirsten Herrick
, MSc, PhD
National Center for Health Statistics
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
HHS
M
el
issa Nickle
, MPH
Nutrient Data Laboratory
Agricultural Research Service
USDA
WenYen Juan, PhD
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Food and Drug
Administration
HHS
Cynthia Ogden
, PhD, MRP
National Center for Health Statistics
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
HHS
Brian Kit
,
MD, MPH
National Center for Health Statistics
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
HHS
Pamela Pehrsson
,
PhD
Nutrient Data Laboratory
Agricultural Research Service
USDA
S
us
an M. Krebs
-
Smith, PhD, MPH, RD
Risk Factor Monitoring and Methods Branch
National Cancer Institute
HHS
Jill Reedy, PhD, MPH, RD
Risk Factor Monitoring and Methods Branch
National Cancer
Institute

[goodnesswins]

see post 73

[DPMD]

Plant based? Okay, I choose the Dubuque Meat Plant for my diet.

[Joe 6-pack]

I start every day with my two favorite vegetables: coffee and tobacco.

[GingisK]

Cows eat grass and are therefore “Plant based”.

Exactly right! Plant eater by proxy.