How about low fat Dietary Guidelines that have been sweet on sugar for 35 years! Even though elevated blood sugar is the common denominator of obesity, diabetes, and diet-related heart disease, the words “blood sugar” do not appear in the federal government’s official 2010 Dietary Guidelines. During Day 2 of the first meeting of the 2010 [...]
Flat in the ’60s and ’70s, obesity only began to increase after 1980, the year the ”low fat” Dietary Guidelines for Americans became the “Cornerstone of U.S. nutrition policy.” But if you limit fat and foods that contain fat – like red meat – you must eat more of something else and for a majority of Americans [...]
Frank Hu, PhD, professor of nutrition/epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health: “The overemphasis on reducing fat caused the consumption of carbohydrates and sugar in our diets to soar. That shift may be linked to the biggest health problems in America today.” For over 50 years the medical establishment, the American Heart Association (AHA), public health [...]
In the U.S. in 1950, obesity and diabetes were not public health problems. In 1980, USDA issued the first-ever low fat Dietary Guidelines for Americans. In 2010 – the same year that even more stringent anti-fat Dietary Guidelines were reaffirmed – the CDC in Atlanta referred to diabetes as a dangerous “run-away-train.” What happened between [...]
1825 French lawyer and gourmand Brillant-Savarin publishes The Physiology of Taste, in which he says he has identified the cure for obesity: “More or less rigid abstinence from everything that is starchy or floury.” 1830 Sugar consumption in the US is 15 pounds per capita (much of it molasses). Today: 150 pounds per capita (much [...]
1. In 1937, Columbia University biochemists David Rittenberg & Rudolph Schoenheimer demonstrated that dietary cholesterol had little or no influence on blood cholesterol. Since this has never been refuted, why do the 2010 Dietary Guidelines limit dietary cholesterol to fewer than 300 mg per day? 2. Dietary cholesterol is poorly absorbed – 50 percent at [...]
Harvard’s Dr. Eric B. Rimm: “Dietary fats do not lead to obesity…” On October 31, 2008, during that first meeting of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC), Dr. Eric B. Rimm, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, questioned what he called the “artificial limit” on dietary fat in the U.S. Dietary Guidelines. From [...]
On Tuesday, June 15, 2010, the proposed 2010 Dietary Guidelines were released by USDA recommending even more stringent reductions in animal fats and cholesterol than all previous guidelines (1980-2005). The 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Report recommended that Americans reduce saturated fat intake from 10 to 7 percent of calories and continued to demonize dietary [...]
On January 31, 2011, after two years of largely ignored deliberations, USDA released the revised low fat, high carb 2010 Dietary Guidelines, 70-plus pages of bizarre nutritional advice that, in the midst of a diabetes epidemic, do not include the words “elevated blood sugar” or “insulin.” Only carbs elevate blood sugar, especially sugary, floury products [...]
