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[pamojja]

Sign, if you agree:

https://forbetterdie...guidelines.org/

 

 

11.➔Don’t issue population-wide guidelines based on weak data

Experts developing the guidelines have, in many cases, issued recommendations based on weak, observational data, while ignoring relevant clinical trial data to the contrary. The guidelines should be based on a complete, comprehensive review of the most rigorous (randomized, controlled clinical trial) data available, and on subjects for which this data is lacking, the guidelines should either issue “weak recommendations” or else remain silent.

 

[pamojja]

 

 

10.➔Recommend regular meat and milk rather than the low-fat/lean alternatives





There is no clinical trial data showing that “lean meat” or “low-fat” dairy are better for health than the more natural versions of these foods. Nor are there rigorous, clinical trial data showing any ill effects of red or processed meats.

 

[pamojja]

 

9.➔Stop recommending vegetable oils for health

Large, government-funded controlled clinical trials on more than 50,000 people have demonstrated that
replacing saturated fats with polyunsaturated vegetable oils such as soybean and corn (but not olive oil), did not reduce cardiovascular mortality and in quite a few trials, caused an increase in death rates from cancer and suicides.

 

[pamojja]

 

8.➔Stop telling the public that reaching and maintaining a healthy weight can be accomplished by choosing “an appropriate calorie level.”





The calorie-in-calorie-out (“energy balance”) model of obesity -- which asserts that people can achieve and maintain significant weight loss simply by reducing calories and increasing exercise–-oversimplifies the issue. Insulin and other hormones are among other factors also involved in determining weight.

 

[pamojja]

7.➔Stop recommending “lower is better” on salt
 


Three peer-reviewed studies in major journals as well as a 2013 report by the Institute of Medicine cited by the DGAs all conclude that in addition to an upper limit on sodium consumption, there should also be alower limit, below which an increased risk of cardiovascular death is seen.

[pamojja]

 

6.➔Stop recommending aerobic exercise for weight loss





The most comprehensive expert review of data on exercise, published in 2008 by US Department of Health and Human Services and cited by the DGAs to inform its recommendation on exercise, concludes that aerobic exercise is ineffective for weight loss and only marginally effective for weight maintenance

(Although exercise is an important part of overall health and well-being)

 

[misterE]

PCRM power plate. This is the only accurate advice I've ever seen.

[YOLF]

I already know several of these are valid and I can think of several more... Like stop fighting over low carb vs low fat diets... it's determined by genetics and believing in some advice isn't going to help anyone do anything besides buy different foods. Instead, they should be recommending genotyping so people have the right expectations for weight loss and maintenance. Consumer education is important here. I can remember back to the late 90s, early 00s when they were selling us the current weight loss reality which is factually false, only ensures that overweight people generate more healthcare economy, and has generated a never ending stream of diabetes and cancer drugs of minimal efficacy which will have very little use if we have drugs that make people skinny... Drug candidates like those who can't find funding b/c they will disrupt the established portfolios of investors, which can't afford to keep talent or have their talent hired away from them by high bidders, and which would create massive changes in the healthcare economy... 

[pamojja]

 

5.➔Make the DGA diets nutritionally sufficient, with nutrients coming from whole foods

The current recommend DGA diets are deficient in potassium, vitamin D, vitamin E, and choline, according to the DGAs’ own expert report. Further, to the extent that the DGA diets are nutritionally sufficient, they rely heavily upon the 3-5 recommended daily servings of artificially fortified refined grains, which are high in refined carbohydrates and are not a natural source of these nutrients.

 

[pamojja]

 

4.➔Offer a meaningful diversity of diets

Although the DGAs now feature three recommended “Dietary Patterns” – “US-style,” Mediterranean, and vegetarian -- the current guidelines remain a one-size-fits-all diet, which is not appropriate for a general population in which nutritional needs vary by age, genetics, gender, race, and degree of disease state.