Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee - Should Be Held Accountable | Carbohydrates Can Kill

The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Should Be Held Accountable | Carbohydrates Can Kill

Robert K. Su, MD

By taking a quick glance, the proposed Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010 [1] are nothing new but a worse copy of their predecessors. Aside the possible conspiracy that involves politics and favoritism, the guidelines reflect the irresponsibility and naivety of their authors, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.

Based on the decades old concepts that carbohydrates are a darling and fats are an evil, the current and older versions of Dietary Guidelines have helped both the US and global populations become heavier [2] and increasingly suffer from diseases such as diabetes mellitus, coronary artery disease, arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease, and cancers. [3, 4] At the same time, as a result, the health care cost has steeply risen with no hope of reversal in any time soon. [5]  Having known all the facts, the Advisory Committee has committed gross negligence by continuing to recommend a worse version of the old dietary guidelines even with a reduced fat consumption. The act of the Advisory Committee is irresponsible.

2010 Dietary Guidelines Member: admits "No Scientific Basis" for them

2010 Dietary Guidelines Committee Member Joanne Slavin: ‘There Is No Scientific Basis For The U.S. Dietary Guidelines’ « Jimmy Moore's Livin' La Vida Low Carb Blog

Joanne Slavin, PhD, RD, professor of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Minnesota, was the head of the Carbohydrate Committee and on the Protein sub-committee for the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Scientific Advisory Committee. She was invited to be one of the guest speakers at The 9th Conference on Preventative Nutrition in Tel Aviv, Israel on May 18, 2011. Perhaps Ms. Slavin felt more at liberty to express her true feelings about the final version of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines being overseas and didn’t realize that I’d have eyes and ears listening in to what she had to say. But according to my source who was in attendance to hear her speech, you could tell she had an obvious discontent with the nutritional recommendations that are now being thrust upon Americans.

"There is no scientific basis for the U.S. Dietary Guidelines."

and see:

• 50kzone: You’ve come a long way, USDA - Dr William Davis
• 50kzone: Food pyramid - USDA changes yet again, now its the "Plate"

Grains - The Weston A. Price Foundation

Sally Fallon is the co founder of The Weston A. Price Foundation , and a co-author of the 1989 book Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook That Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats. Here she is speaking about dietary grains:




.....and in context of the USDA's now superceded Food Pyramid:



related:

- 50kzone: Food Industry Lobby - Why Grains (And Soy) Are Gov Endorsed
- 50kzone: Mark Sisson - "Abadon all grains, eat more fat"

You’ve come a long way, USDA - Dr William Davis

further to "50kzone: Food pyramid - USDA changes yet again, now its the "Plate"", see:

You’ve come a long way, baby by Dr William Davis

It looks to me like the USDA has not only failed to keep up with the evolution of nutritional thought, but has regressed to something close to advising Americans to go out and buy stocks on the eve of the 1929 depression. Most of us discuss issues like the genetic distortions introduced into wheat, corn, and soy; the dangers of fructose; exogenous glycoxidation and lipoxidation products yielded via high-temperature cooking; organic, free-range meats and the dangers of factory farming, etc. None of this, of course, fits the agenda of the USDA.

New USDA Dietary Guidelines: Total Hogwash, and Here’s Why

The New USDA Dietary Guidelines: Total Hogwash, and Here’s Why « Raw Food SOS: Troubleshooting on the Raw Food Diet

04 02 2011
 
A few days ago, the USDA finally unveiled their (fashionably late) 2010 dietary guidelines—the first update they’ve made since 2005. Are you as excited as I am? Can we live without bread yet? Leave the fat on our dairy? Ditch the rancid vegetable oils? Gobble down butter and coconut oil without fearing imminent death? By golly, has the USDA finally pulled its head out of the soybean fields and given us something useful, emerging as a reliable authority instead of a food industry puppet?

Nah.

Food pyramid - USDA changes yet again, now its the "Plate"

edit: also see 50kzone - "You’ve come a long way, USDA - Dr William Davis"

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com - R.I.P. food pyramid



the new USDA "Plate" is meant to replace the (twelve version) "My Pyramid" introduced by the USDA in 2005: YouTube - Food Pyramid:

 

My Pyramid was meant to replace the USDA's  original 1990's food pyramid, on the basis "the science no longer supported it".  http://youtu.be/IJnGFacO3Vs

the Harvard School of Public Health thought My Pyramid was no good:

"The problem was that these efforts, while generally well intentioned, have been quite flawed at actually showing people what makes up a healthy diet. Why? Their recommendations have often been based on out-of-date science and influenced by people with business interests in their messages". 

so it  produced its own food pyramid which differed on key aspects (more background here: http://youtu.be/GciZe53R2bg )

 

clear now!



or not sure?

maybe some more food pyramids then?

here is what a progressive vegetarian one looks like - from here






here is what a low carb diet food pyramid looks like -
from here

here is what a paleo diet food pyramid looks like -
from here

 

can you trust institutional organisations like the USDA to get it right? 
here is one view:   The New USDA Dietary Guidelines: Total Hogwash, and Here’s Why « Raw Food SOS: Troubleshooting on the Raw Food Diet

and see: 50kzone: Grains - The Weston A. Price Foundation