New chart from Tufts' new food ranking system.
53 General Mills cereals all healthier than cheddar cheese, milk, egg cooked in butter
Including:
Dora the Explorer, Berry Burst Cheerios, Count Chocola, Lucky Charms, Chex Chocolate.
(General Mills funds a Tufts Food Inst 🤨)
2. Another chart:
MnMs, Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, Triscuits >> cheese or eggs
Lead author is Dean of Tufts Nutrition School, architect of White House Conf. on Nutrition & Health
We can't blame Americans for ill-health when this is our expert advice. Time to wake up.
3. Froot Loops, Cinnabon, Honey Smacks all >> eggs
Tufts is influential, advising White House, Congress on nutrition
Says its rating sys. should be used in policy, #ESG, “marketing to children”
Harvard advises mostly plant-based diets for longevity even tho the diet lacks essential nutrients like B12. Could not have even been an option until supplements were invented in mid-1900s. And how come some longest-living people daily ate bacon & eggs? 1/ mindbodygreen.com/articles/harva…
My latest: "A short history of saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus"
Do saturated fats cause heart disease? The science was always weak. Fear of these fats was started by American Heart Assoc. in 1961 based on a flawed study🧵 journals.lww.com/co-endocrinolo…
2. At the time, Heart Assoc had a major undisclosed conflict of interest: it had basically been launched by funding ($20M in today's dollars) from Procter & Gamble, maker of Crisco Oil
Heart Assoc then promoted veg. oils by selling them as "heart healthy," safer than sat fats
3. Despite Heart Assoc advice, he original "core" clinical trials on saturated fats, from the 60s and 70s, could not find an effect of these fats on cardiovascular mortality, total mortality, and for the most part heart attacks or other 'events.'
Quite a bit of #misinformation in this article on protein by the @washpost with Walter Willett, an anti-meat activist who has been saying "no amount of meat" is best since 1990. Why are his biases not disclosed? washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/… 1/
Willett has been richly funded by food industries that benefit from elimination of meat. HIs bias against meat goes back 30y at least and is reflected in his many papers on meat + related topics. His views do not reflect prevailing science on protein. 2/ scribd.com/document/39760…
On saturated fat, eg, there are 20+ systematic reviews on clinical trials (highest quality data) concluding there's insufficient evidence to show effect of these fats on heart disease, despite extensive trials on 75K people. Most authoritative paper here: jacc.org/doi/abs/10.101…
White House conference on hunger, nutrition & health was supposed to start 15 min ago. The lead-up to this event has been last-minute, secretive, and apparently still is. 🤪...you can watch here 1/
Detailed agenda with names of panelists was released....yesterday.
I don't see any of the known published experts in nutrition and disease here, but there are no bios, so hard to tell. 2/ health.gov/our-work/nutri…
Also yesterday, the White House released its "national strategy" for hunger, nutrition, and health. Basically they want more programs, more funding for more of the Dietary Guidelines. Because they've worked so well to prevent obesity and diabetes... 3/ whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…
I'm delighted to be an author on this paper, just published, in a journal of the Nat'l Academies of Sciences. A deep-dive analysis of US Dietary Guidelines (#DGA),🧵on findings academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/adva…
2020 USDA "Dietary Patterns" (main diet advice) are based on systematic review of science from 2012-13. I.e., 8-9 yrs out of date when 2020 report issued.
Law says guidelines should reflect science that's "current at the time the report is prepared"
Guidelines not in compliance
2020 review of Dietary Patterns says it did "evidence scans" of the more current evidence, but this is not a recognized method (u can pubmed search it)
Also, science for majority of Birth-to-24 mo. reviews were only thru mid-July 2016.
Not "current" at time of report in 2020.
Hard to believe, but the US Dietary Guidelines now recommend even more carbohydrates as % of calories than they did in the last go-around (I just did the math on this).
Currently:
5 years earlier in the last iteration of the guidelines:
For people with metabolic diseases such as diabetes and obesity, the clear answer to the Q in this article is no, These people are intolerant of carbohydrates and can only process small amounts.
Similar to gluten intolerance. wsj.com/articles/shoul…