Sharing a post from Diet Doctor site:
"US readers: Help shape the dietary guidelines, now!
If you’re an American whose health or weight has been improved by keto or low carb eating, we hope you’ll speak up to shape the next version of the US Dietary Guidelines.
Your honest, personalized comments can help guide the process to include taking a harder look at the evidence supporting low carb diets.
Note: The timeline to provide input is short. The US government will close off comments at 11:59 p.m. EDT on Monday May 16, 2022. Below, we’ve provided simple instructions and a link to add your voice to the review process.
But first, here’s a bit more background about what is happening and why the timing of your input is so critical.
Last month, the United States Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services (USDA-HHS) began the process of reviewing the Dietary Guidelines for 2025 by publishing a list of the scientific questions they propose to address.
These are the questions that a special committee (so far unnamed) will review in order to create the new version of the guidelines for 2025 to 2030.
Unfortunately, not a single question — not one! — is asked about the science of low carbohydrate diets. If no questions about low carb diets are in the review process, the review committee will not examine the ever-growing body of evidence. In essence, they will ignore research amassed over the last 20 years that supports carbohydrate reduction for weight loss, diabetes management, and improving many other metabolic health issues.
If the special committee doesn’t review this science, low carb diets will not be included as a healthy option in the next version of the guidelines.
The current guidelines advise Americans to eat more than 50% of their daily calories as carbohydrates. These guidelines impact medical advice, government nutritional policy, and government programs and services. They even impact the menus in schools, hospitals, nursing homes, army bases, and more.
“We need [to encourage] the government to finally review the science that demonstrates the vast benefits of low-carbohydrate diets in helping people overcome diabetes, improve their cardiovascular health, lose weight, and so much more,” urges Jennifer Friedlin, president of the Nutrition Coalition.
The Nutrition Coalition is a non-profit educational organization created with the primary goal to ensure that US nutrition policy is based on rigorous scientific evidence. The coalition is leading the effort to get US citizens to submit comments to the Dietary Guideline process, demanding that the set of scientific questions include a question about the evidence for low carb and keto diets.
This is the specific wording the coalition suggests be added to the list of scientific questions:
What is the effect of low-carbohydrate diets (including low-carbohydrate and ketogenic diets, defined altogether as less than 25% of total calories or 100 grams of carbohydrates per day) on overweight/obesity, pre-diabetes/diabetes, and heart disease risk factors?
The coalition suggests that ordinary citizens request that the USDA-HHS include this question about low carb diets in the scientific review and then use their own words to share how their health and weight have improved with this way of eating.
Since Diet Doctor shares the goal of improving world health based on healthier, evidence-based diets, we are urging supporters to submit a comment by May 16. Please submit a comment, and share this post to encourage others to share their perspectives."
Words above and the link to the commenting process. can be seen here
If you’re an American whose health or weight has been improved by keto or low carb eating, we hope you’ll speak up to shape the next version of the US Dietary Guidelines.
Your honest, personalized comments can help guide the process to include taking a harder look at the evidence supporting low carb diets.
Note: The timeline to provide input is short. The US government will close off comments at 11:59 p.m. EDT on Monday May 16, 2022. Below, we’ve provided simple instructions and a link to add your voice to the review process.
But first, here’s a bit more background about what is happening and why the timing of your input is so critical.
Last month, the United States Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services (USDA-HHS) began the process of reviewing the Dietary Guidelines for 2025 by publishing a list of the scientific questions they propose to address.
These are the questions that a special committee (so far unnamed) will review in order to create the new version of the guidelines for 2025 to 2030.
Unfortunately, not a single question — not one! — is asked about the science of low carbohydrate diets. If no questions about low carb diets are in the review process, the review committee will not examine the ever-growing body of evidence. In essence, they will ignore research amassed over the last 20 years that supports carbohydrate reduction for weight loss, diabetes management, and improving many other metabolic health issues.
If the special committee doesn’t review this science, low carb diets will not be included as a healthy option in the next version of the guidelines.
The current guidelines advise Americans to eat more than 50% of their daily calories as carbohydrates. These guidelines impact medical advice, government nutritional policy, and government programs and services. They even impact the menus in schools, hospitals, nursing homes, army bases, and more.
“We need [to encourage] the government to finally review the science that demonstrates the vast benefits of low-carbohydrate diets in helping people overcome diabetes, improve their cardiovascular health, lose weight, and so much more,” urges Jennifer Friedlin, president of the Nutrition Coalition.
The Nutrition Coalition is a non-profit educational organization created with the primary goal to ensure that US nutrition policy is based on rigorous scientific evidence. The coalition is leading the effort to get US citizens to submit comments to the Dietary Guideline process, demanding that the set of scientific questions include a question about the evidence for low carb and keto diets.
This is the specific wording the coalition suggests be added to the list of scientific questions:
What is the effect of low-carbohydrate diets (including low-carbohydrate and ketogenic diets, defined altogether as less than 25% of total calories or 100 grams of carbohydrates per day) on overweight/obesity, pre-diabetes/diabetes, and heart disease risk factors?
The coalition suggests that ordinary citizens request that the USDA-HHS include this question about low carb diets in the scientific review and then use their own words to share how their health and weight have improved with this way of eating.
Since Diet Doctor shares the goal of improving world health based on healthier, evidence-based diets, we are urging supporters to submit a comment by May 16. Please submit a comment, and share this post to encourage others to share their perspectives."
Words above and the link to the commenting process. can be seen here
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All the best Jan
16 comments:
Na minha opinião comer um pouco de tudo é o mais saudável!
Um beijinho!
Megy Maia💮💮💮
Megy Maia google translation ...
In my opinion eating a little of everything is the healthiest!
A kiss!
Aside from public sanitation works and ensuring wards of the state get adequate nutrients, the government needs to get out of the health business. Government-sponsored low-fat diets and most of their COVID responses were disasters.
...I think that is controlled the food industry lobbyists!
Hadnt heard about this next version shaping
Es mejor una dieta equilibrada. Te mando un beso.
Thank you.
Healthy eating shouldn't relate to the country in which you live.
I found out here that big business have lobbied lot food industries.
Coffee is on and stay safe
Eat fresh food. Mostly plants!
(ツ) from Cottage Country Ontario , ON, Canada!
Oh yes, healthy eating is the basis of life.
I baked with fine ingredients and now I'm going out into nature... Meeting friends over coffee and cake... Picnic :-)) I wish you a happy Sunday from the bottom of my heart.
Hug Viola
I"m surprised they're not considering this issue, especially in light of the increasing in diabetes cases.
J.P. Alexander said...
Es mejor una dieta equilibrada. Te mando un beso.
Google Translate ...
A balanced diet is better. I send a kiss.
To eat fresh food is very important in life
I am not surprised at all that the questions about low carb diets are not on the list. Heaven forbid people should get healthy by diet leaving the pharmaceuticals to lose huge money by keeping people sick. The medical profession, in the US, is all about the $$$$$ and the bottom line. A huge corporation took over the medial group in my town. We all got letters telling us we are no longer patients, rather customers. That is very true but let us at least think we are more than customers. Thanks for the good information.
Feliz semana. Besos.
Not too bad, thanks Jan.
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