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7 Sep, 5 tweets, 3 min read
A recent survey found 42% of adults gained weight during the pandemic: avg. of 29 lbs. 1 in 10 gained 50-plus lbs. Weight gain increases risk of T2 diabetes and other diseases...and also, to poor outcomes for #Covid19 1/
apa.org/news/press/rel…
h/t to @chriskresser for this info
Greatest predictor of hospitalization/death from #Covid other than old-age, is obesity, high avg. blood glucose. A study in JAMA found 63.5% of hospitalizations were due to 4 major metabolic conditions: diabetes, obesity, hypertension, heart failure 2/
ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.11…
Dr. Cucuzella and I wrote about this: "Is it time for a Lockdown on sugar?" 3/
journals.lww.com/cjsportsmed/Ci…
It's very clear what reduces high average blood sugar and can put T2 diabetes in remission as well as help with weight loss: reduction in starches in sugars, as I wrote about for the Wall Street Journal 4/
wsj.com/articles/a-low…
Public health leaders don't mention nutrition, blood glucose, metabolic risk factors. The solution is focused only around vaccines/boosters and not what can be done to make ourselves healthier, more resilient to this pandemic. People need to take health into their own hands.

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It appears there's an effort underway to 'cancel' non-establishment views on nutrition. Seems impossible, yet it's happening. Non-orthodox opinions are being suppressed in many fields-why not nutrition? Hence, a thread for @twitter @facebook @Wikipedia @youtube @instagram etc
On saturated fats, the vast majority of now ~20 review papers on this subject do NOT support continued caps on sat fats. Official guidelines lag behind (as they always have), but the science clearly no longer supports caps on these fats. List of papers: nutritioncoalition.us/saturated-fats… 2/
Most important was a paper on sat fats in the J. of Am. College of Cardiology. Authors included 4 members of previous USDA-HHS Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committees, saying, basically, we got it wrong on sat fats: Data do not support continued caps 3/ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Malnutrition among US women. "This is the stuff that keeps me up at night,” says prof. Bailey. And ability to have healthy children? “Going into reproductive age at nutrition risk can cause intergenerational effects"
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wsj.com/articles/teen-…
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9 Feb
In the US, "We live shorter, poorer lives" according to a Nat'l Academies' report. The report was called a "catalogue of horrors." Newspapers were "stunned" and "surprised." That was 2013. “As bad as things were then, they’ve only gotten worse,” says Dr. Woolf from @VCUHealth
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"The troubling portrait of America’s health did not spur action to paint a better one. Two presidential administrations have ignored it, as has Congress" states this article by @undarkmag, looking back at the 2013 report undark.org/2021/02/01/ame… @XavierBecerra
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29 Dec 20
Thread Re: #DietaryGuidelines (DGA), just out:

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. Image
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) Image
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7 Jul 20
Here are the major review papers that the USDA has ignored on saturated fats. A decade of science swept under the rug.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
#DelaytheDGA @HouseAgGOP @HouseAgDems @HouseAppropsGOP @AppropsDems 1/
Major review papers on saturated fats ignored by USDA.
ebm.bmj.com/content/early/…
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Major review papers on saturated fats ignored by USDA.
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doi.org/10.1093/nutrit… 3/
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7 Jul 20
Today! 11-3PM ET, tweet to #DelaytheDGA until the expert panel includes ALL the science in the Dietary Guidelines expert report. Currently all trials on weight loss, low-carb excluded. Sat fat reviews of last 10y excluded. @HouseAgGOP @HouseAgDems @HouseAppropsGOP @AppropsDems 1/
DGA methodology is a black box. Lack of transparency , eg. not disclosing sig. conflicts of interest on expert panel, which include major ties to food and pharma industries. #DelaytheDGA @HouseAgGOP @HouseAgDems @HouseAppropsGOP @AppropsDems 2/
DGA has no advice for anyone diagnosed w/ chronic illness including obesity, diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver disease, etc. Even tho these are DIET-related diseases. Obesity now at 42.4% in US. #DelaytheDGA @HouseAgGOP @HouseAgDems @HouseAppropsGOP @AppropsDems 3/
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