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Low-carb advocates launch bid to sway federal diet advice

Low-carb advocates launch bid to sway federal diet advice

https://www.politico.com/newsletter...t-advice-783874

Quote:

The Low-Carb Action Network — launched on Wednesday by a small group of doctors, researchers and consumers who encourage Americans to cut back on bread, pasta and other carbohydrates — is aiming to influence federal nutrition advice being updated in 2020. The group said scientific research shows the diet can help prevent diseases, particularly Type 2 diabetes, and should be included in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

The network does not receive funding from industry and plans to set up a donation page on its website to raise money, a spokesperson said. It is “rapidly recruiting from the low-carb diet influencers and the thousands of people with success stories.”

Now this is a fine cause and I'm glad to see it.

We tried it last time around and were ignored.
Dietary recommendations still came out based upon epidemiology not experiments

I wish them luck, it's an up-hill battle against conventional wisdom.

According to the latest graphic, the base of the food pyramid is now fruits and vegetables, with grains moved up a step.

Progress of a sort.

Well, considering that we are supposed to turn these pyramids upside down, now the new pyramid isn’t as good as the old

And now it's a plate.

Even the plate was just a new spin on the old pyramid!!

Sometimes it just takes perserverence to make change.

Recently, a woman in a local Massachusetts town pushed for years to ban plastic bags at the grocery stores and she succeeded! Sometimes it requires years to change ingrained information. But it can be done.