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.
An “epidemic” of obesity that requires intervention? Aren’t these the same people that called concern about Ebola “hysteria”?
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I’m FAT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2mU6USTBRE
We may die of Ebola, but we’re going to be healthy when we die — or else.
LOL.
Most people need more protein.
More meat. But that doesn’t fly with the vegan crowd.
Well, folks, they got tired of harassing the smokers.
That is all I have to say about this.
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.
This just makes me want some ice cream with chocolate syrup.
“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/
I hope the line isn’t long.
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.
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.
The government didn't do it by forcing people, nope, they listen to the news and make up their own mind.
Set up production lines, liposuction those bureaucrats, then refine the rendered product into biodiesel fuel. Vrooooooooom!
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?
[[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’?
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. .....
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!
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