Wed, Jul-15-20, 12:13
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Plan: P:E/DDF
Stats: 225/150/169
BF:45%/28%/25%
Progress: 134%
Location: NC
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So the latest email and TwitterStorm campaign to delay the publication of The Dietary Guidlines did not work....
First article seen about guidelines...mostly about early feeding guidelines.
Wouldn’t no added sugar in baby food have been a given?
No added sugar for babies, US advisory panel recommends, as it launches early feeding advice
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/heal...ness/index.html
In addition to early feeding advice...
Quote:
Additional recommendations:
Here's a shocker for men who drink: The committee is suggesting reducing current guidance for two drinks for men and one drink a day for women. "Recommended limits for both men and women who drink would be 1 drink per day on days when alcohol is consumed," the report said. No amount of alcohol is good for your overall health, global study says No amount of alcohol is good for your overall health, global study says Research has indicated higher average alcohol consumption is associated with an increased risk of all-cause mortality, so "those who do not drink should not begin to drink because they believe alcohol would make them healthier."
What's missing from this analysis? The committee didn't tackle the topic of red meat -- a major supplier of saturated fat in the American diet and a huge player in the argument over food sustainability and environmental impact.
Sodium and salt and their role in the growing epidemic of hypertension and heart disease was also not part of the committee's assignment. "The report says remarkably little about sodium beyond that it is overconsumed and people should 'reduce sodium intake,'" Nestle said.
The committee didn't address drinking water over other beverages for hydration. Nor did they touch on the need to limit the American fascination with overly processed foods that lose nutritional value as their shelf life expands. "Ultraprocessed" is the new way of talking about foods that should not be consumed regularly or in large amounts — tons of evidence has come in within the last five years," Nestle said. "The word does not appear in the report except in the references," Nestle said. "If the committee considered this evidence, it did not spell it out explicitly."
Those issues aren't addressed, critics say, because the independence of the 2020 Dietary Advisory Committee was removed by the federal government. "For the first time in the 40-year history of the Dietary Guidelines, the agencies — USDA and HHS — set the scientific agenda, not the committee," Nestle said. While we don't know if the committee would have considered other topics, "sustainability, meat, sodium, and ultraprocessed foods are the hot nutrition topics these days and getting the committee's take on these issues would have been a big help," Nestle said.
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