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January 24th, 2016 
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Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) have released New Dietary Guidelines (NDG) in an attempt to counter the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) of the Obama administration.
Steven Nissen, cardiologist and Chairman of the Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Cleveland Clinic, when said that the DGA is “sowing public confusion and for lacking the support of rigorous scientific evidence.”
Nissen pointed out that the DGA removed its “longstanding advice on consuming foods high in cholesterol but also suggesting Americans should eat as little dietary cholesterol as possible” which are “diametrically opposite conclusions.”
And he criticized the president’s guidelines for suggesting that Americans limit their saturated fat intake because “the best available evidence does not clearly support the widely held belief that Americans should limit saturated fat” in their diets.
What it boils down to is Nissen is concerned about using science to give nutritional advice. He said: “Properly performed studies may demonstrate that saturated fat and cholesterol are indeed nutrients of concern, but the opposite conclusion is also possible. It is time to transition from the current evidence-free zone to an era where dietary recommendations are based on the same quality evidence that we demand in other fields of medicine.”
The NDG complained that Obama’s DGA was confounding consumers who are naive and easily manipulated; forcing them to spend an excess of $ trillion annually to the food industry.
Ken Cook, president and co-founder of EWG, explained that his guidelines “serve the public interest, not the vested interests”. Cook intimated that comprehension of complicated subjects such as nutrition could feed into corporate interests, rather than benefit the consumer.
The EWG criticized that there was:
• Little mention of whether meat consumption was healthy over all
• President’s guidelines appeared to downplay any healthful benefits of a plant-based diet
• No mention of mercury risk increase due to consumption of tuna and other fish
• Lack of focus on limitation of sugary drinks in the average American’s diet
According to the NDG, certain recommendations are more important than others. Such as:
• Eat more vegetables and fruits, and avoid pesticides when you can
• Consume less meat overall, and refrain from red and processed meat
• Avoid sodas, sugar drinks, and salty foods as a whole
• Choose seafood low in mercury, and caught in a sustainable way
• Avoid processed food containing harmful chemicals
In favor of the NDG, co-author and research analyst Emily Cassidy argued that “we eat probably has greater impact on our health and well-being than nearly any other choice we make.”
Cassidy is concerned about the role “business interests and politics” played in the creation of the Obama administrations nutritional guidelines because she feels “the federal government did not give people the solid guidance they need about how to eat a diet that is both healthy and good for the planet.”
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