RFK Jr.’s dietary guidelines: Beef tallow is in, but no booze for breakfast
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Ah yes, hospital food after you have had surgery - the best and most relevant source of information for everyone.
I should have known better than to look at that original diagram objectively in this sound-chamber.
"Overwhelming evidence accrued in recent decades shows that the types of fat and carbohydrate have major implications for chronic disease prevention, and that healthy dietary patterns may vary greatly in macronutrient proportion with attention to food quality. This principle is undermined to a significant degree by a renewed focus on restricting total dietary fat, especially for a worldwide population with highly prevalent insulin resistance and related cardiometabolic disorders."
Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002916523661520
More articles say similar things. There is just no evidence that supports most of the claims people have. The internet has just made it worse, even though there is good information available, people won't read it.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2475299123154369
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physiology/articles/10.3389/fphys.2023.1144200/full
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If you're going to whine about people not agreeing with your super-duper superior opinions, at least get the terminology right. "Sound-chamber"?
ETA: none of those studies say what you claim they say. You're fooling absolutely nobody.
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As far as the not using the phrase as health guidance, that's what the old guidance and the initial advice* on this guidance did. They basically said, "we don't have a good definition for Ultra Processed Foods, and therefor we won't include them in our guidance."
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be honest - you didn't even click on them, let alone read them.
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Thank you! I was reading the article and thinking, "Gee, whose administration would have issued the guidelines published in 2020?"
They aren't even trying any more, are they?
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Okay, let's get this out of the way first: RFKJr used some absolutely shit-tastic 1990s clipart to build that inverted pyramid.
Onward!
It means no more than 40 calories of added sugar.
Eating an average banana is totally fine under the new guidelines. You would consume ~14 grams of sugars.
Onward!
Nope.
It means no more than 40 calories of added sugar.
Eating an average banana is totally fine under the new guidelines. You would consume ~14 grams of sugars.
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I find unsalted butter with a teaspoon of extra·virgin doesn't spatter as much (the water + hot oil thing) as pure olive oil.
Shouldn't matter much as you don't normally consume the grease — unless you make fried bread à la British "cuisine."
A small quantity of omega-6 fatty acid in your diet is apparently desirable and I imagine a small amount of butter might provide that.
Less flesh in the diet generally, is probably a desirable target for most US consumers. Cost would limit that in most other parts of the globe.
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I think I have seen this recipe in a classic cookbook (probably not Elizabeth David) and have always regretted that I am unlikely to ever partake of the dish (in AU at least) and many other offal based dishes. Still love the lambs fry and grilled lambs' kidney from childhood.
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A lot of reduced fat or fat free versions of traditional products are bulked out with even more unhealthy ingredients. Reduced fat yoghurts typically very heavy on the sugar.
My take is to enjoy your traditional cream cheese in moderation (and just about anything else.)
I read Mireille Guiliano's "Why French Women Don't Get Fat" years ago on a whim after picking up a copy from a street library and to my surprise found she dispensed great deal of common sense.
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look at the fine list of lobbyists behind RFK's juggernaut.
Who wants steak?
The only bright side is that the things these assholes are advocating are unaffordable by many Americans.
One more positive iso if these guys eat this shit, maybe their coronary outcomes would mean they are leaving the planet early.
Who wants steak?
The only bright side is that the things these assholes are advocating are unaffordable by many Americans.
One more positive iso if these guys eat this shit, maybe their coronary outcomes would mean they are leaving the planet early.
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My takeaway is that pyramid = bad and funnel = good. Thanks, RFKJR, I'm learnding!
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I mean, at least they didn't use slop gpt to extrude the thing?
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https://www.technologyreview.com/20...ore-scientific-research-red-meat-beef-tallow/
An attempt at an even handed (and still not very positive) take that pretends that those running the government aren't lunatics, while still kind of making clear that they are without saying it outright.
An attempt at an even handed (and still not very positive) take that pretends that those running the government aren't lunatics, while still kind of making clear that they are without saying it outright.
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The only thing I learnt from this jumbled mess is that green beans can come in a can (as opposed to fresh or frozen).
Up until now, I've lived my life blissfully unaware of this fact, and just imagining the texture, I kind of wish that had remained the case.
Up until now, I've lived my life blissfully unaware of this fact, and just imagining the texture, I kind of wish that had remained the case.
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How much does it cost to have your product show on the new pyramid, by position?
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But they'll be all over it if it has an attractive promoter with a well-crafted campaign on Instagram and Tiktok.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15252019.2020.1769514
but the bad news is:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11901546/
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The entire program can be summarized Trump-style in a series of three images: left to right, the “Before” photo featuring a closeup of a young Brad Pitt; the graphic of the new inverted food pyramid; and finally, the “After” photo featuring a closeup of RFK Jr.
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There are some traditional or derived yogurts that don't have it. Like Icelandic Skyr and other strained types.
Not sure about Japan...
https://dairynews.today/milkypedia/country/jp/
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Now the easy part: dietary behavior change, affordable food, addressing food desserts /s
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I hear apoplexy on the rumour mill that more whole ingredients should be available to food stamps shoppers.
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Actually, yes. On account of different forms and extents of physical activity (the average American is not very physically active, and what activity they do have is low impact at that), but also the vastly more complicated gut microbiome (much of which is inherited from mothers). We're still trying to piece together all the ways the microbial life inside our digestive system works with (and often against) our overall physical, mental (yes, seriously), and digestive health.
But one thing that can be said with absolute certainty -- Americans consume way too much sugar. In fact, if you look at the extreme and negative impacts that level of sugar consumption has on a person's health, it's not unreasonable to say that Americans are actually consuming sugars in amounts that are essentially toxic.
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If we are being honest. Nobody follows these guidelines (just walk around and watch people) and when people want to lose weight they either go to the doctor or follow some version of WeightWatchers so it’s not like this is a huge problem for the average person. I understand the issues it generates for medicine professionals, but the attack on vaccines is where the focus should be. Unfortunately, we have to pick our fights.
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and it’s quite likely that people in America ate less food, in the past, just less (unless they worked hard physically), and that the northern Mediterranean portions are way smaller than in the US even now. I remember being astounded at US portion size when I moved here in the 70s from England - the land of suet. I thought people were playing a joke on me when they subbed me lunches at UCLA!
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I prefer Jack LaLanne's approach:
1. Don't eat anything that comes in a box, bag, or wrapper.
2. If it tastes good spit it out.
The more modern take:
Treat food as fuel and not entertainment.
1. Don't eat anything that comes in a box, bag, or wrapper.
2. If it tastes good spit it out.
The more modern take:
Treat food as fuel and not entertainment.
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…. Well with that amount of red meat it won’t be coming out easy
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I very much disagree. That some eats a vegan diet tells you nothing apart from their diet. Any beliefs you have about why you or others should be vegan should not be presumed to be held by everyone who is vegan, no matter who tells you that this is true.
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Your own link states in the introduction that there are many large proven health benefits to the population of restricting sodium intake significantly, but that restricting it "aggressively" gives no additional benefits.
Taking that papers numbers, given in the first part of the discussion, the current population intake is 9-12g/day and there is benefit to reducing down to 5g/day, but no benefit to reducing it further than that. Given those numbers, recommending a reduction in sodium intake to the general population is obviously worthwhile.
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I agree. When I see outcry against highly-processed foods I tend to react skeptically.
Here's what i generally see happening;
Someone takes a list of all foods ordered from healthiest to least healthy.
They find a way of slicing that list that gives more foods in the unhealthy end than in the healthy end.
Diet's that include a high proportion of the slice are likely to be unhealthy.
They then claim that the whole slice is unhealthy and that people shouldn't eat them.
Buy my book/subscribe to my paleo diet etc
Noone can even agree on the definition of the slice - but it's fairly obvious to everyone that the most unhealthy foods on the planet lie in it. Chocolates, sweets, pastries, pizza, soda - those are highly processed. But they are more usefully grouped into foods that are high in sodium or with a ton of added sugar. The highly processed foods slice, instead, allows people pushing fad diets to associate industrial ingredients with poor health, without any actual research about the ingredients.
It's correlation not causation.
And like with most marketing, I smell profit motives behind the marketing push.
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At least processed carbs are at the bottom where they belong.
If we were being really accurate it would be just fruits, vegetables, seeds, and nuts at the top.
If we were being really accurate it would be just fruits, vegetables, seeds, and nuts at the top.
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