{"id":2340,"date":"2010-07-03T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/2010-dietary-guidelines-more-of-the-same.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T09:40:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:40:18","slug":"2010-dietary-guidelines-more-of-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2340","title":{"rendered":"2010 Dietary Guidelines … more of the same"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every five years the <\/span><\/span>Dietary Guidelines for Americans<\/span><\/a> 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. <\/span><\/div>\n

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And not much has changed since the first guidelines were published in 1980. In fact, it would not be a huge stretch to sum up the new 699-page report with Michael Pollan\u2019s simple advice: <\/span>\u201cEat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n

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<\/span><\/i>So why bother mandating this rather painful, politically fraught process?? <\/span><\/div>\n

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You know what to do.<\/b><\/i> <\/span><\/div>\n
Eat less. Don’t eat fake foods, fake ingredients, or any synthetics. Use your behaviors to control your portion distortion. Our obesity rates continue to rise, and we are struggling as a culture to get a handle on this solution. <\/span><\/div>\n

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There is an <\/span>intuitive correctness to <\/span>our call for you to “eat real food, and control your portions through your eating behaviors<\/i>.” You know this is the right answer, and you don’t need scads of academics telling you how many of this or that carbohydrate should or shouldn’t be in your meals that you may eat 3 or 6 times per day as a percentage of a 2000 calorie\/day diet. Yech. <\/span><\/div>\n

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Honestly? I don’t know that we need someone else to tell us what we should be putting in your mouth. You have enough common sense to make this evaluation on your own. You just need to let go, and have the courage to make health decisions that you know are correct: “eat real food, control your portions through your eating behaviors.<\/i>” <\/span><\/div>\n

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Eat less. Move more. Why do we need the 2010 Dietary Guidelines?<\/a><\/p>\n

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