Opinion: Diets are not one-size-fits-all. So why do we treat dietary guidelines that way?
By Nina Teicholz May 2 at 9:12 AM Nina Teicholz is a journalist, adjunct professor at New York University and author of “The Big Fat Surprise.”
This narrow focus clearly came as a surprise to some members of the 20-person appointed expert committee tasked with overseeing the science of the 2020 guidelines. They’d been gathered in Washington by the Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services, which jointly oversee the policy. One committee member asked, for instance, whether a study on obese people that looks primarily at weight loss would be included.
A lower-carbohydrate approach could be a windfall for many. It has been demonstrated to work whether one is merely overweight or formally “obese,” prediabetic or “diabetic.” As a patient slides from the “pre” state of disease into its full-blown horror, a diagnosis is essentially just a name-change. One’s metabolic health has been steadily declining all along, and the solution for reversal, independent of one’s position along that downward slope, is the same.
The USDA gives a nod to the “general public” requirement in its 2020 charter for the guidelines. However, in practice, the agency is clearly designing a program for healthy people only.
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