Posted on 02/23/2015 7:05:17 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Stop chugging sugary soda and munching sweet treats.
Cut back on red meats, butter and other sources of saturated fat.
Lay off the salt shaker.
Eat plenty of fruits and veggies.
And don't worry about having an egg and an extra cup of coffee with your breakfast.
These are the conclusions of the advisory panel that helps shape America's official dietary guidelines, and they appear to be about the same as they were back in 2010, the last time the guidelines were updated, dietitians say.
"What's good about the report is that much of it is reinforcing what we saw in 2010," said Connie Diekman, director of university nutrition at Washington University in St. Louis.
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee's report this year concludes that Americans are still eating far too much sugar, salt and saturated fat, increasing their risk of chronic and deadly illnesses.
Americans also aren't getting adequate levels of important nutrients such as vitamin D, calcium, potassium, fiber and iron, the committee found.
This consistent message could help Americans who want to eat right but are confused by constantly changing recommendations, Diekman said.
"What the committee has recommended is what the current science supports, which is our intake of added sugars and saturated fats is still too high. If we expect to reduce our risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and obesity, we need to make a shift to more plant foods," she said. "Maybe if we go a second time around on 'this is what the science shows,' the consumer will hear the science-based message and consider change."
The worst foods for the American diet are burgers, sandwiches, tacos, pizza, desserts and sweet snacks, and sugar-sweetened beverages, the committee found.
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New info for me on the splenda
Try probiotics instead.
What’s wrong with sammiches? If you disassemble a sammich, you’ve got some bread and some meat and some cheese and some veggies. I thought these things were good for you. Is there something about about stacking them on top of each other that makes them unhealthy? Same argument for hamburgers as far as I’m concerned.
About a year ago, the CDC published an article which I read in my (very leftist) newspaper. The CDC said, to wit: “We were wrong. Salt is ok. Eat all you want. It won’t hurt you.” ((This is probably available on the internet, may take some digging or maybe it’s been scrubbed.))
Since then, there has never been a peep, not another word and the war against salt continues. Now the gummint wants to add other food items to the war.
Apparently, the involved processors aren’t paying enough vigorish.
I pretty much ignore all these so called “experts” that are in reality borderline idiots with an excessive number of degrees and little or no common sense.
The liver metabolizes sugar in the liver just as it does alcohol. Do you know that you can get cirrhosis of the liver from sugar? Sugar in soda such as coke is causing our crisis with Diabetes.
Bread[especially white] is digested vary fast by the body. Making a sanwich is pretty much like pouring table sugar over your meat and veggies.
Yes. The single most important thing you can do for your health is to never again in your life consume a slice of white bread, bowl of sugary cereal, glass of orange juice, or can of soda. High glycemic index carbohydrates kill.
Cut back on red meats, butter and other sources of saturated fat.
Nonsense. There were two or three small studies back in the 50's that showed an increased risk of heart disease from saturated fat, but they did not control for sugar. People who shoveled in donuts were killing themselves with sugar, but the fat got blamed. It has become the nutritional equivalent of an old wives' tale. Eat all the saturated fat you want, as long as you are active enough to burn off the calories. It's harmless.
Trans-fats are another matter, however. Biochemically, they are a lot farther down the path to manufacturing bad forms of cholesterol. Telling people to give up butter for margarine was perhaps the single worst piece of advice the nutrition nannies ever gave to the American public, which is really saying something.
Also, dietary cholesterol is meaningless to blood cholesterol. I eat almost nothing but meat, eggs, and lots of unprocessed vegetables, and my cholesterol level has never been lower nor my good-to-bad cholesterol ratio higher, since the very first time it was measured.
Lay off the salt shaker.
Good advice if you are already hypertensive, otherwise useless. There is no evidence that salt restriction improves the health of normotensive people, and some evidence that it is harmful.
Eat plenty of fruits and veggies.
Good advice. Veggies more than fruit, though, and lay off the sugary high-glycemic index tropical and citrus fruits. Instead, eat berries and stone fruits.
And don't worry about having an egg and an extra cup of coffee with your breakfast.
Good advice.
For much more on this topic, read Gary Taubes' book, "Why We Get Fat."
Okay, so a sandwich with whole grain bread then.
And the difference in white bread versus whole grain bread is relatively small in terms of glycemic index — 30 to 40 percent. IOW whole grain is 60 to 70 percent as evil as white bread.
Yet people have been eating bread since forever and it didn’t seem to wreck their health or make them fat until recently. So it must not be the bread that’s the problem, which means sandwiches aren’t a problem either.
Sounds like a liberal diet. Could it be that this diet is what destroyed the part of the brain where common sense comes from?
There was yet another new study showing butter isn't bad that came out last week: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2946617/Butter-ISN-T-bad-Major-study-says-80s-advice-dairy-fats-flawed.html
Those munchies in front of the tv will kill ya.
I always laugh at that absurd statement. It’s like you won’t die if you don’t eat those things. Everyone is going to die and quite frankly I would rather die happy then miserable eating fruits and vegetables. Sorry but I refuse to give up a donut, pizza, and whatever junk that is bad for us. I was in the military 24 years so I am in good shape but I eat horribly but I enjoy it. I figure as long as I maintain my normal weight I am good to go. If I have a heart attack or end up dying from eating so be it. I am going to die from something anyway. I don’t mean to sound cynical but I hate the government intervention into nutrition. It is dumb and they can never make up their minds anyway.....now I guess you can drink coffee all day long when a short while ago you could only have a cup a day....same with salt, eggs and every other food that the government “studies”.
Thanks for the ping!
Processed white bread is bad. People haven’t been eating refined grains forever. The more we have refined certain foods, the more it has created a offset problem.
Start with High Fructose Corn Sugar. The junk is poison and is in EVERYTHING. Getting the crap out of our diet would be a good move in my opinion.
Sugar in soda such as coke is causing our crisis with Diabetes.
Instead of wasting money on studies about how people get diabetes maybe they need to find a cure. That would help out more than what these studies are doing. Plus this so called epidemic of diabetes is a bit overblown like Autism is a scam so is diabetes. The doctors love it. I mean I only know a few people who have this so called diabetes but they don’t have any problems except checking their blood and popping a pill a day at least that is what my co workers do. Doctors are getting rich on it and so are people doing these studies.
Given the track record of these dietary guidelines, this make me nervous about eating eggs and drinking coffee. The idiots who write these things are almost 100% wrong...
Yeah but they’ve been eating whole grain bread since forever and it’s 60 to 70 percent as bad as white bread in terms of effect on blood glucose.
And while people haven’t been eating white bread for nearly as long, they’ve been eating it since well before the fairly recent problems of obesity, diabetes, etc. Which indicates to me that white bread isn’t the problem.
Yet, Americans are living longer than ever.....
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