Forthcoming USDA Guidelines

[MikePollard]

If you still have concerns that cholesterol, saturated fat and salt are bad for you, you might be interested in this latest posting.

You may be aware of Dr. Malcolm Kendrick's trenchant views and disagree with him, but you should carefully read where his comments are sourced from - the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics - the world’s largest organization of food and nutrition professionals:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acade...

drmalcolmkendrick.org/2015/...

It will be interesting to see, when the latest USDA 2015 Dietary Guidelines are released,

how the powers that be try to row back and justify the stance of they have held since 1977. A stance based on flawed research and vested interests that has led to so much suffering and unnecessary death around the world since then!

[CDreamer]

I am glad to see some changes coming. My personal view, based on my own observational research of myself and what I eat over the last 40 years is:-

Eat a little of every food group, not a lot of any one food group.

Avoid all wheat based products or animal meats from corn fed beasts or anything fed antibiotics.

Avoid all medications unless life threatening or QOL intolerable, especially pain killers.

Whole seeds & nuts and whole fruit are good, the fibre content means you would not be able to eat too much whereas juice lack the fibre content so are too heavy in sugars per glass.

Avoid all processed foods, especially anything with more than 3 ingredients.

Eat only organic produce ie:- absence of pesticides

Avoid dairy except for butter for cooking and the odd treat (1 x month)

Salt is ok and I for one need it as I have very low BP but only ever use naturally harvested sea salt or pink Himalayan salt (available for Liddle) for seasoning whilst cooking, never add to the plate.

Exercise a bit, rest a lot and avoid stress ie don't seek it out in work and family if it can possibly be avoided.

Sleep well and live and enjoy life and stop worrying what is going to kill you, something will get you, the one certainty in life, but in the meantime I for one am enjoying LIFE!

Live well!

[sandybrown]

Thanks.

Looking forward to changes in UK!

How many years do we have to wait?

[rocheen in reply to sandybrown]

Probably a very long time.

[DakCB-UK in reply to rocheen]

UK advice changed years ago. Cut down sugar nhs.uk/Livewell/Goodfood/Pa... and "Some foods, such as liver, kidneys and eggs, contain cholesterol (known as dietary cholesterol). However, this has little effect on blood cholesterol" nhs.uk/Conditions/Cholester... and so on. What's on the web isn't all 100% up-to-date, but what dieticians tell you is better.

[DakCB-UK]

In other words, he's taken the recent announcement that the USDA is going to keep playing catch-up with the NHS advice (whose dieticians stopped telling us to limit dietary cholesterol years ago) and spun it into self-vindication by summarising it incorrectly as "cholesterol is healthy"?

[DakCB-UK]

No it isn't. I have never had a real live dietician refer to the Eatwell plate. I think we need to draw the distinction between personal healthcare and public health advice - of course, public health advice is often broad-brush wrong-if-you-examine-the-detail-finely stuff. The Eatwell plate is as misleading as the term LCHF.

[DakCB-UK]

A lot of the supporting material is online at evidence.nhs.uk/

The latest diet booklet I was given by the hospital dieticians seems to have most of the refined carbs in the "These should be avoided where possible" section and mainly wholegrain products fairly low down the OK section, with fats/oils, dairy, eggs, meat and fish above them.

I don't know why you were told what you describe, but it's not at all like what I've been told.

[sandybrown]

Low protein/high carbohydrate (LPHC) diets when food was always available delivered the same benefits as calorie restriction in terms of insulin activity, blood sugar and cholesterol levels, the scientists found.

Read more: dailymail.co.uk/health/arti...

Photo of veg, see the difference!

i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/201...

[sandybrown]

I am confused because of this :

In short. Cholesterol is healthy, saturated fat is healthy, salt is healthy and sugar is unhealthy. I have pulled those four points out of a press release by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. This was taken from Dr. Malcolm Kendrick, report.

[sandybrown]

Thank you.

The amount of time audience and health staff looked at me as I was from a different planet when I give my input at meetings!

All I can do is continue with my belief and eat food what I have been eating and go for regular exercise.