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I think things have come along nicely in the last few years.
Take for example the following 13 points from a letter of Canadian MDs to the Canadian government.
Only point 5 and 12 would differ from RP.
Can the American health care industry suppress the truth for so much longer??
The Canadian Dietary Guidelines should:
1. Clearly communicate to the public and health-care professionals that the low-fat diet is no longer supported, and can worsen heart-disease risk factors (5,6,7,8,22,24,27,31).
2. Be created without influence from the food industry (4).
3. Eliminate caps on saturated fats (8,20,22).
4. Be nutritionally sufficient, and those nutrients should come from real foods, not from artificially fortified refined grains (9).
5. Promote low-carb diets as at least one safe and effective intervention for people struggling with obesity, diabetes, and heart disease (10,11,13,21,27).
6. Offer a true range of diets that respond to the diverse nutritional needs of our population (12).
7. De-emphasize the role of aerobic exercise in controlling weight (14,32).
8. Recognize the controversy on salt and cease the blanket "lower is better” recommendation (15,16,26).
9. Stop using any language suggesting that sustainable weight control can simply be managed by creating a caloric deficit (14,21,27,28,29,30). 1
10.Cease its advice to replace saturated fats with polyunsaturated vegetable oils to prevent cardiovascular disease (17,18,19,20).
11.Stop steering people away from nutritious whole foods, such as whole-fat dairy and regular red meat (18).
12.Include a cap on added sugar, in accordance with the updated WHO guidelines, ideally no greater than 5% of total calories (25).
13.Be based on a complete, comprehensive review of the most rigorous (randomized, controlled clinical trial) data available; on subjects for which this more rigorous data is not available, the Guidelines should remain silent.
http://www.foodmed.net/2016/canada.pdf
Take for example the following 13 points from a letter of Canadian MDs to the Canadian government.
Only point 5 and 12 would differ from RP.
Can the American health care industry suppress the truth for so much longer??
The Canadian Dietary Guidelines should:
1. Clearly communicate to the public and health-care professionals that the low-fat diet is no longer supported, and can worsen heart-disease risk factors (5,6,7,8,22,24,27,31).
2. Be created without influence from the food industry (4).
3. Eliminate caps on saturated fats (8,20,22).
4. Be nutritionally sufficient, and those nutrients should come from real foods, not from artificially fortified refined grains (9).
5. Promote low-carb diets as at least one safe and effective intervention for people struggling with obesity, diabetes, and heart disease (10,11,13,21,27).
6. Offer a true range of diets that respond to the diverse nutritional needs of our population (12).
7. De-emphasize the role of aerobic exercise in controlling weight (14,32).
8. Recognize the controversy on salt and cease the blanket "lower is better” recommendation (15,16,26).
9. Stop using any language suggesting that sustainable weight control can simply be managed by creating a caloric deficit (14,21,27,28,29,30). 1
10.Cease its advice to replace saturated fats with polyunsaturated vegetable oils to prevent cardiovascular disease (17,18,19,20).
11.Stop steering people away from nutritious whole foods, such as whole-fat dairy and regular red meat (18).
12.Include a cap on added sugar, in accordance with the updated WHO guidelines, ideally no greater than 5% of total calories (25).
13.Be based on a complete, comprehensive review of the most rigorous (randomized, controlled clinical trial) data available; on subjects for which this more rigorous data is not available, the Guidelines should remain silent.
http://www.foodmed.net/2016/canada.pdf