Posted on 02/10/2015 11:13:59 AM PST by jdege
The U.S. government is poised to withdraw longstanding warnings about cholesterol in your diet
The nation's top nutrition advisory panel has decided to drop its caution about eating cholesterol-laden food, a move that could undo almost 40 years of government warnings about its consumption.
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The current U.S. guidelines call for restricting cholesterol intake to 300 milligrams daily. American adult men on average ingest about 340 milligrams of cholesterol a day, according to federal figures. That recommended figure of 300 milligrams, Eckel said, is "just one of those things that gets carried forward and carried forward even though the evidence is minimal."
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With no real scientific evidence to back up the claim.
The result has been an explosion in obesity, diabetes, and assorted diseases.
It's well past time for them to admit that they simply got it wrong.
I thought the science was...settled.
Eggs ... aren’t bad for you.
Salt ... Americans don’t get enough.
Carbohydrates at the bottom of the Food Pyramid ... Never mind.
Cholesterol ... Eat that steak!
Way to go Feds.
Next thing you know, they’ll be telling us that driving cars will change the weather.
Do diabetics get to sue?
“I thought the science was...settled.”
You type faster than I do.
In about 20 years, the morons will announce they’ve finally figured out Global Warming was all BS.
They will probably never admit any such thing.
There was a “scientific consensus” on this subject, wasn’t there?
We’ve turned into a nation of pill poppers. I got one word for you, pharmaceuticals.
No, liberals will not give up their faith based religion of man made global warming, even if they have to freeze to death.
Sugar is the new cholesterol. Fast forward another 40 years.
“Sugar is not actually all that bad for you. Our bad.”
I can’t remember his name, but there is a surgeon who says that statin drugs are what is doing all of the damage to arteries not dietary intake.
So, when do they officially apologize to the family of the late Dr. Atkins?
There was a “scientific consensus” on this subject, wasn’t there?
1984 NIH Consensus Conference on Cholesterol
Best summary: "If there had really been a consensus, there'd have been no need for a conference."
Have they axed Michelle yet?
yet the school lunch program will continue to serve stuff that gets sent right to the trash .
You are absolutely correct.
And that Harry Reid didn't have an exercise machine malfunction...
The “ice age” didn’t pan out in the seventies, so then it was “global warming”, but now they are just calling it “climate change”. Who can argue with that?
They axed the Wookie about transfats and she said”not really”
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