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Leading US heart health group recommends prioritizing plant-based protein over meat relative to US government
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I Am the Food Intolerance You Failed to Plan For
I am not vegetarianism. Vegetarianism, with its reliance on cheese, is as outmoded as lampshades encased in pleated plastic.
I am not veganism. Veganism uses too many soy-based meat substitutes – those are death to me.
Gluten-free is old hat. Yes, I can’t absorb gluten but who can?
Dairy, as usual, is not an open-and-shut case. I can tolerate pure cream but nothing more affordable. Certain cheeses will work but no one can guess what they are.
Yes, you heard me – grains are out. Oh and carbs. Forget about potatoes, corn, yams, rice, bread – including stuffing – and anything else pleasant. But that's not the intolerance.
Pies – no, never, not of any description. Fruit and fructose do not metabolize in my system. Cream-based food is poison to me (though not cream itself). Parfaits and other whipped desserts can deliver harmful electrolytes to my lacrimal glands. Chocolate-covered mints give me seizures.
You still haven’t guessed the intolerance.
Gravy? You mean the oil-based goo laced with additives we pour over meat and carb substitutes? Well, I like it but it’s just common sense to avoid it but anyway that’s not the intolerance.
Oh all right, I’ll tell you. I’m following the Australopithecus diet – meat cured by dead flies and only the kinds of fish that were evolving in 900,000 B.C. I.e., tadpoles but not frogs; leeches but not eels. I can eat mitochondria.
Green beans? What part of 900,000 B.C. don’t you understand? Phaseolus vulgaris, or string beans, weren’t cultivated for human consumption until c. 400 B.C.
Squash looks pretty but it wasn’t available to our Australopithecan ancestors. We ate mostly Savannah grasses or grubs.
Grub substitutes can include risotto and farro but really should be actual insects.
Again, it’s not to be troublesome that I ask you to respect these dietary guidelines but because I have too much respect for my body to subject it to the elaborate poisons you’re putting on the table.
And no, I’m not mocking the physically handicapped – I just find it more natural to walk on all fours. Now please pass the cream.
Nutrition labeling changes that highlight sugar added to food or drink may have large benefits for public health, researchers say.
Nutrition label changes aimed at curbing America’s sweet tooth could have a sizable payoff for public health.
A new study projects that the updated labels, which detail the amount of sugar added to a food or drink, could help the average U.S. adult cut sugar consumption by around half a teaspoon a day. If that happens, the labeling change could prevent around 350,000 cases of cardiovascular disease and nearly 600,000 cases of diabetes over the next two decades, scientists report online April 15 in Circulation.
The estimates come from a simulation, covering the years 2018 to 2037, that was based on a representative U.S. population of about 220 million adults aged 30 to 84, and that used data on sugar intake from a national health and nutrition survey.
The updated sugar labeling is part of a series of nutritional label changes announced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2016, to be fully implemented by 2021. The U.S. government also released updated dietary guidelines in 2016, recommending that people consume no more than 10 percent of their daily calories in added sugar (SN Online: 1/7/16). Added sugar accounted for 17 percent of an adult’s calorie intake, on average, in the United States in 2012, according to a study published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Consuming too much sugar, especially in the form of sugar-sweetened beverages, has been tied to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. This link may be due in part because the body becomes resistant to the glucose-regulating hormone insulin.
A government-commissioned study had been meant to inform new dietary guidelines, and found risks associated with even light drinking
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the new dietary guidelines don’t make much sense until you realize that almost half of the advisors have private interests in the dairy and beef industries
The Sickest Nation on Earth
Why the Food Pyramids Keep Failing Us America is not sick by accident. By nearly every comparative measure, the United States ranks poorly among high-income nations: shorter lifespans, higher infant mortality, more obesity and chronic disease, and more years lived disabled — despite spending more on health care than any society in history. These outcomes are not sudden. They are not mysterious.…
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