{"id":2283,"date":"2010-11-04T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/do-the-dietary-guidelines-improve-nutrition.html"},"modified":"2016-08-12T13:39:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T13:39:13","slug":"do-the-dietary-guidelines-improve-nutrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2283","title":{"rendered":"Do The Dietary Guidelines Improve Nutrition?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The dietary guidelines started in 1980, when we weren’t nearly as obese, heart diseased, and diabetic as we are now. <\/span>

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Has it helped? <\/b> <\/span>
Linda Van Horn, the Chair of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and editor of the <\/span>Journal of the American Dietetic Association <\/span><\/i>insists on the Guidelines’ relevance by stating that Americans HAVE made dietary changes as a result of these recommendations. <\/span><\/span>

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But what have we done?<\/b> <\/span><\/span>
The <\/span><\/span>average American intake of total fat and saturated fat have decreased to 33.6 percent and 11.4 percent  \u2013 compared to 42 and 14 percent before the first guidelines were published. <\/span>

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<\/span>So. Wait. When we were thinner, our diets were different than they are now? In the Mediterranean region, their %fat content is closer to 40% … like ours was when we were thinner and healthier. <\/span><\/span>

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The answer is only partially true:<\/b> <\/span><\/span>
Our dietary guidelines have certainly CHANGED nutrition, but has that been a positive change? It’s hard to see how, or to see the justification for pushing us in this direction while our weight and health problems get worse year by year.   <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Dietary Guidelines do improve nutrition, says committee chair<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Bookmark<\/a>For more information: Click here to visit Will Clower’s website. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The dietary guidelines started in 1980, when we weren’t nearly as obese, heart diseased, and diabetic as we are now. Has it helped?  Linda Van Horn, the Chair of the Dietary … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[344,321],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fat","tag-usda-food-pyramid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Qv5g-AP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2340,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2340","url_meta":{"origin":2283,"position":0},"title":"2010 Dietary Guidelines … more of the same","author":"Will Clower","date":"July 3, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Every five years the Dietary Guidelines for Americans are revised, but after two years\u2019 work on the 2010 draft document, we\u2019re back to pretty much where we were five years ago. 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