USDA-HHS Secys said they're for “all Americans,” yet the DGA is scoped ONLY for disease prevention, not treatment. This ignores the 60% of US with a diet-related disease. DGA is thus for minority of Americans who are healthy.
Congress' statute says the DGA must be for the "general public"--yet clearly majority of Americans now have diet-related diseases. THIS is the general public, yet Guidelines excludes them. DGA process didn't even look at studies on weight loss, when >42% of adults now w/ obesity.
Tagline of this DGA is "make every bite count," yet did not reduce 10% of calories as sugar, as recommended by the expert committee. Sugar is not just 'empty calories'--it raises blood sugar and over time high blood sugars lead to diabetes (+ increase vulnerability to Covid)
Guidelines are also, by law, supposed reflect "scientific and medical knowledge that is current at the time" Yet its core recommendations, the "Dietary Patterns" are based on systematic reviews from 2013. Already 7 years out of date.
Encourages people to eat "nutrient dense" foods which sounds good but seems to be the new way to condemn fat (see graphic). Fat is not nutrient dense, per se, but it is part of many foods that are naturally v. nutrient dense (milk, meats, some fruits)
In fact, this #DietaryGuidelines don't meet nutrient goals: “Nutrients that do not meet Recommended Dietary Allowance or Adequate Intake goals include the following:" Iron, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Choline, and Folate.
2020 Expert Report, Part D, Ch. 14, p. 10
That is probably bc the #DietaryGuidelines are keeping their 10% cap on saturated fats, which limits the natural, whole foods where these nutrients are found. And now, sat-fat cap goes down to all children >2 even tho only 2 small trials cited (one on teens w/ genetic aberration)
And here's the kicker. Actually only 5% of saturated fats should come from food, says the new DGA. The rest should be the "saturated fats from oils," aka, highly industrialized (and inflammatory) soybean oil. Ew.
Last decade of science on saturated fats was ignored, even though former Dietary Guidelines committee members, including the Chair of the 2005 DGA, tried multiple times to reach USDA-HHS to let them know science on sat fat has changed. They were ignored. bmj.com/content/371/bm…
In all, a sad day for science and the public health. We live in one of the sickest countries on earth, and here is the record of the #DietaryGuidelines in combatting obesity (+ diabetes, etc). Process is captive to the food & drug industries. @JoeBiden please do better.
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One year ago, dozens of headlines splashed news about a "keto-like" diet causing heart disease
This came from a press release by the Amer. College of Cardiology, on data that had been presented at their conference but not published--not even a pre-print; study not registered 1/
@ACCinTouch
I wrote about this at the time:
All links, statement from ACC, attempts to interview the researchers here.
(need to scroll half-way down the article) 2/shorturl.at/myzGT
A year later, there's still nothing published, not even a pre-print🤔
Press releasing unpublished data is poor practice. Rules out the possibility of critique by other researchers--bc data not available.
Could be seen as a PR stunt 3/
Gemini AI doesn't just have a "woke" problem. It's also engaged in making harmful, (libelous/defamatory) statements about people like myself, who challenge a status quo narrative. Should this not be of concern to @GoogleAI?
In my case, Gemini falsely asserts that I have ties to the meat and dairy industries. It tries to substantiate these claims with innuendos and fallacious arguments
When corrected, Gemini says, 'I'm learning,' yet if you ask again, it just repeats the same false information 1/
I'm having trouble believing that the @nytime cares about the health of its readers.
Here's a featured recipe from this week. A stack of pancakes with syrup that will send your blood sugar sky high and is one of the worst possible ways to start the day.
And ICYMI, here's what the Times recommended in the middle of the pandemic, when we knew that obesity, diabetes etc vastly increased the risk of worsened outcomes and death from Covid
Also during the pandemic, here was its Ode to Binge Eating.
"Let’s stress-eat some chips together
The American Heart Assn (AHA). just came out with a diet-rating list that tanks low-carb/keto due to saturated fat. Why is the AHA the last to get the news that these fats don't cause heart disease? 1/ nbcnews.com/health/heart-h…
This authoritative "State of the Art Review" in a top journal written by authors including 5 former members of the US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committees concluded there should be no more caps on saturated fats. Evidence does not support it. doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc…
Here's a summary of 22 review papers, the vast majority of which conclude saturated fats are not a factor in poor heart disease outcomes.
AHA paper is an outlier--bc it ignores the more definitive "hard outcome" data on cardiovascular and total mortality. scribd.com/document/64120…
New paper: shows how a low-carb diet could be a viable, affordable option for the US Dietary Guidelines.
USDA needs a low-carb option, because its current 3 "dietary patterns" are 52-56% of calories as carbs.
What would a low-carb option look like? 🧵 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
--Far fewer grains. Grains just turn to sugar in the body
--No refined grains (duh)
--Far less dairy (this surprised me)
--Much more protein (the current amount in the guidelines is a bare minimum but not enough for kids, elderly and other groups)
More veggies!
--A lot more green, red and orange vegetables
--More beans, peas and lentils (? bc carb-rich)
--Fewer starchy vegetables. Starch --> sugar in the body
Is the next generation of MDs getting smarter about food for health?
An informal poll of med students at Harvard, Yale, Tufts, others (# students=41) is encouraging.
Poll organizer-a student who read ⬇️ thread
(chart is not a joke). Poll results-this 🧵
2. Above chart is data from "Food Compass," a food profiling system developed by Dean of Tufts School of Nutrition
Poll Q: What's healthier--Reeses Puffs or an egg?
-Students-->100% say eggs
-Food Compass-->Reeses Puffs scores 71 vs. 54 for cooked egg (100 is perfect score)
3. Poll Q: What's healthier?
Chocolate almonds or turkey breast?
Students--> 100% say turkey breast
Food Compass-->Chocolate almonds scores 78 vs. 55 for turkey breast
Go students!