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 [...]
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 [...]
The Weston A. Price Foundation’s Healthy 4 Life plan recommends nutrient-dense animal and plant foods, with particular emphasis on healthy traditional fats like butter, lard, egg yolks and coconut oil. The current obesity epidemic emerged as our nutrient-dense traditional fats were replaced by highly processed vegetable oils and refined carbohydrates. The failed 2010 Dietary Guidelines [...]
In the U.S. dietary kingdom, saturated fat is most feared – fingered as the cause of heart disease and stroke. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), they have been warning us away from saturated fat since 1957. In 1961, at the urging of AHA board members Ancel Keys and Jeremiah Stamler, the AHA officially [...]
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 [...]
