Super important to consider @CoryBooker@SenateAgDems@SenateAgGOP that our most important govt policy is not evidence-based and does not improve health. Very likely causes harm. This is our government's current policy for prevention and the basis of all federal nutrition prog.
When you talk about disease prevention, this is the government's top policy. It's been followed, yet Americans are not getting healthier.
Why? Bc the advice could not be shown--even in clinical trials--to produce good health. Low-fat diet was shown to INC. risk of heart disease.
These were large clinical trials on >50K people.
So what works to actually swivel diet-related diseases into reverse? Either a permanent starvation diet (not viable) or a diet that restricts all sugars, including foods that turn to sugar upon digestion (grains, fruits).
This diet can reverse T2 diabetes in less than 10 weeks, return blood pressure to normal within 2-3 weeks, and reverse fatty liver disease (now also epidemic). Also improves vast majority of risk factors for heart disease.
Smart policy should follow the strongest science.
The Senate Ag Committee took an historic step in emphasizing the importance of diet-related diseases. Yes, it cripples lives, it destroys our nation's finances , and endangers our military. Thank you for highlighting these long overlooked issues.
Now, to follow the best science.
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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…
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…
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"
Important story by @ANDREAAPETERSEN
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
By 2019, U.S. was 36th in the world on life expectancy at birth, behind Slovenia, Costa Rica. Recent paper found that even privileged whites fare worse on infant mortality, maternal mortality+deaths from heart attacks than avg. citizens of Norway, Denmark+other developed nations
"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
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)