Trust your Government:

[Newt]

The Federal Government and Food Guidelines
http://reason.com/archives/2015/08/14/g ... ealth-tips

Next Time Government Gives You Dietary Advice, Consider Doing the Opposite (Reason Article)

the fedgov has failed early and often at influencing food guideline policy, often to the detriment of its citizenry

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We already know that government recommendations regarding health are often driven by a bunch of Chicken Littles. The leading organ of American scaremongering, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has gotten so much wrong over the years. There was the outrageous contention that 400,000 Americans were dropping dead from obesity every year. (They weren't.) And then there were all the over-the-top warnings about the alleged risks of secondhand smoke. (They don't really exist.)



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Earlier this year, the bureaucrats behind the government's dietary guidelines finally admitted there was "no appreciable relationship" between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol. After years of warning Americans that high-cholesterol foods would kill them—eggs, shrimp and so on—the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee will no longer list cholesterol among its "nutrients of concern" for overconsumption. Now some scientists argue that the state's obsession with scaring citizens about fat may actually have made our health worse.



remember: government intervention often leads to the market creating worse options to replace the banned substances

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The popularity of partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, which government absurdly banned earlier this year, was driven in large part by government scaremongering about the evils of cooking with lard. But when contemporary researchers looked at the 1970s-era data underlying the dietary fat guidelines, they came to the conclusion that the data did not support the idea that eating less fat would translate to fewer cases of heart disease or that it would save lives. And studies show it hasn't.



i really wish that fedgov was held to the same standard as private industry. compare the outrage of the BP oil spill to the EPA toxic mine spill. over and over again it is shown that fedgov is no better, and is often worse, even though it is presented through the screen of "protecting" us

[Alabama John]

TV Commentators, especially FOX make fun of folks on the street not knowing simple questions of who is who in our Government.
What they forget is so many are trying, most successfully, to live happy lives and not be studying all the BS the government puts out on many subjects that has been proven we can do nothing about anyway.

Food choices?
The vast majority of folks eat what they want or what their parents or even their doctor told them was good for them. Following the governments advice is the last thing they would do. We are wiser than our government gives us credit for being.

[Mr.Glock]

Luv Reason magazine.

[Pine Mt Beagles]

Wiser than your Government,,,,,,LOL,,,,,Who put the Government there,,The Government,,is not some Mechanical Entity ,,,it's people ,,,,JUST LIKE YOU YOUR NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS,,

[bluemouse]

WWWWWHAT! Make sense clown.