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For all the lunacy of RFK this somehow is actually a really good set of guidelines? Certainly better than the previous version. I didn't expect that to be hones
by zeroonetwothree 10mo ago
For all the lunacy of RFK this somehow is actually a really good set of guidelines? Certainly better than the previous version. I didn't expect that to be honest.
- tomcam 10mo agoWhat lunacy?
- deepsquirrelnet 10mo agoAI generated health report citing hallucinated research and incorrectly representing real research.
- binarymax 10mo agoStaunch anti-vaccine, and he's tearing apart the CDC wit regards to the same.
- ekjhgkejhgk 10mo ago[flagged]
- cr125rider 10mo agoWe don’t need good vaccines anymore even though infectious diseases are on the rise. Other global medical experts seem to be going against many of his plans.
- alterom 10mo ago> We don’t need good vaccines anymore even though infectious diseases are on the rise To clarify, this is an example of RFK's lunacy, not the user's opinion to be voted on.
- vscode-rest 10mo agoThe end result of his vax push has been to reduce the set of government required vaccines down to the same set used by Europe already. Additional vaccination is still available should an individual elect. Are you of the opinion that the European recommendation is insufficient? Would you petition European healthcare industry that they are requiring too few vaccines? If so, I would expect Europeans to be chronically far more diseased than Americans, do we see that in the data?
- amanaplanacanal 10mo agoThe argument I've seen is that because the US has worse medical care in general, it makes sense to get more vaccinations.
- j0057 10mo agoI haven't particularly kept up with RFKs brand of MAGA craziness, but all European countries have different childhood vaccination schedules, with some overlap, see here: https://vaccination-info.europa.eu/en/about-vaccines/when-vaccinate/vaccination-schedules-eueea https://vaccination-info.europa.eu/en/about-vaccines/when-va...
- vscode-rest 10mo agoThe superset of all Euro vaccines is still much smaller than what the US had. Are we that much healthier?
- davorak 10mo agoWhat is on the US schedule that is not on Euro schedule?
- burkaman 10mo agoHere's the US vaccine schedule pre-RFK: https://archive.cdc.gov/#/details?q=schedule&start=0&rows=10&url=https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/prior-years/2022/child-adolescent-compliant.html https://archive.cdc.gov/#/details?q=schedule&start=0&rows=10... Here's a site where you can view vaccine schedules across Europe: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/ https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/ The only outlier is Hepatitis A, which is still recommended in some European countries. On the reverse side, the meningococcal vaccine is commonly scheduled in Europe but not in the US.
- Izikiel43 10mo agoThey are based on denmark's guidelines, which as you know is a very cold country. One of the vaccines made strictly optional was for dengue, which is not really a thing in denmark since I think they don't have that many mosquitos due to weather. However, in the US, mosquitos and tropical weather are common for a large part of the population. Point being, a huge country with a huge variety of climates and diseases shouldn't follow the lead of a small country with a fairly homogenous weather and disease pattern.
- tomcam 10mo agoKennedy has never said anything like that
- wsatb 10mo ago"There’s no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective." https://www.factcheck.org/2023/11/scicheck-rfk-jr-incorrectly-denies-past-remarks-on-vaccine-safety-and-effectiveness/ https://www.factcheck.org/2023/11/scicheck-rfk-jr-incorrectl...
- tempaccountabcd 10mo ago[dead]
- burkaman 10mo agoSome direct, in-context quotes: > There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective. [interviewer pushes back, brings up polio vaccine] So if you say to me, “The polio vaccine, was it effective against polio?” I’m going to say, “Yes.” And if say to me, “Did it cause more death than avert?” I would say, “I don’t know, because we don’t have the data on that.” > The most popular vaccine in the world is the DTP vaccine. [...] That vaccine caused so many injuries that Wyeth, which was the manufacturer, said to the Reagan administration, “We are now paying $20 in downstream liabilities for every dollar that we’re making in profits, and we are getting out of the business unless you give us permanent immunity from liability.” And by the way, Reagan said at that time, “Why don’t you just make the vaccine safe?” And why is that? Because vaccines are inherently unsafe. They said, “Unavoidably unsafe, you cannot make them safe.” Not going quote the whole thing because it's long, but he repeatedly drives home his point that all vaccines are inherently unsafe, and the injuries and deaths they cause always outweigh their effectiveness against disease. - https://lexfridman.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-transcript/ https://lexfridman.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-transcript/ > I see somebody on a hiking trail carrying a little baby and I say to him, ‘Better not get him vaccinated.’ And he heard that from me. If he hears it from 10 other people, maybe he won’t do it, you know, maybe he will save that child. > If you’re one of 10 people that goes up to a guy, a man or a woman, who’s carrying a baby, and says, ‘Don’t vaccinate that baby,’ when they hear that from 10 people, it’ll make an impression on ‘em, you know. And we all kept our mouth shut. Don’t keep your mouth shut anymore. Confront everybody on it. - https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-way-forward/hffh-the-state-of-health-k0HvGSWJeNl/ https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-way-forward/hffh-th... timestamp 11:54, 13:30 This one is interesting because the interviewer prompts him with something like "we aren't anti-vaccine, we just want to make sure they're safe" and he does not agree, he repeatedly says, with no qualification, "tell everyone not to vaccinate their children". I don't believe he has ever voluntarily made a positive public comment about any vaccine. He did during his confirmation hearing, but he was obviously heavily incentivized to do so. During that hearing he did not say his opinion had changed, he simply lied about all past comments and claimed they never happened.
- nancyminusone 10mo agoIt's true - none of his conspiracy theories involve the moon directly.
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- jpadkins 10mo agoBut he didn't say that. He cited the studies that said increased Paracetamol during pregnancy correlates with higher rates of autism, and people should know that and be careful. Whenever we discover a link between two things, it's important to share that in a responsible way. It takes years or a decade of research to prove causation, but we should issue warnings once a link is established. A lot of people can be harmed if the government does not publish when it finds harm that correlates with a substance.
- AlecSchueler 10mo ago> and people should know that and be careful This implies a causal relationship.
- tejohnso 10mo agoIt think it implies uncertainty.
- gtowey 10mo agoI am uncertain if space aliens will abduct me as I sleep, but it would be insane to factor that into my daily decision making. This is where it would help if the government would do the responsible thing and quantify the probability and talk about the risks of not taking medicine if you're pregnant and have a high fever. The fact that they aren't is a clear sign that this is absurd propaganda.
- quentindanjou 10mo ago> He cited the studies A preprint citing 2 studies. With serious studies showing the opposite. You also seem to ignore that fever is a major, and well-proven cause of birth defects and these kinds of fake announcements based on no solid proof could lead part of the population to simply not take any fever-reducing medication by not being knowledgeable on which medicines are NSAID or not. All of this because of a promise that in the first 6 months of the mandate RFK would find "the great cause of autism", this was not because of a new study suddenly discovered.
- thrance 10mo agoAntivax, avocated against pasteurization, thinks fries are healthy when fried in beef tallow, swam in sewers with his grandkids to prove the human body is naturally immune to diseases and vaccines are unnecessary, tried to ban paracetamol based on bad research linking it to autism, and much more if you care to dig a little.
- tomcam 10mo agoHe's never been anti-vax, though he has advocated for better data about vaccines with good reason--it's abominable. He's advocated against requiring milk to be pasteurized. One of the few reasonable datasets suggesting it doesn't help is the amish. The other ones sound weird so I will indeed dig a little.
- FireBeyond 10mo agoShow us all how all the data on vaccines is "abominable".
- cosmicgadget 10mo agoDon't you remember how everyone who got a covid vaccine died off two years later?
- hairofadog 10mo agoWhile he moderates his take on it depending on who his audience is, he has said "There's no vaccine that is safe and effective." https://apnews.com/article/rfk-kennedy-election-2024-president-campaign-621c9e9641381a1b2677df9de5a09731 https://apnews.com/article/rfk-kennedy-election-2024-preside...
- codeka 10mo ago> One of the few reasonable datasets suggesting it doesn't help is the amish When you literally live on the farm where the cow is milked, there is less benefit to pasteurization, yes. Unless you want us to live like the Amish, then let's keep our pasteurized milk, OK?
- jjcm 10mo agoAnti-vaccine, anti-tylenol, stating that circumcision causes autism, stating wireless 5G damages DNA, stating that vaccines are part of a anti-black conspiracy, hiv/aids denialism, believing that contrails are actually chemtrails, etc etc etc.
- tomcam 10mo agoCan you link to your strongest source for one of those claims?
- Carp 10mo agohttps://www.factcheck.org/2025/10/rfk-jr-s-inaccurate-claims-about-tylenol-circumcision-and-autism/ https://www.factcheck.org/2025/10/rfk-jr-s-inaccurate-claims...
- TehCorwiz 10mo agoLink to chemtrails comments: https://gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-goes-full-tinfoil-pledges-to-stop-chemtrails-in-latest-dr-phil-interview-2000596357 https://gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-goes-full-tinfoil-pledges-to-stop... Link to autism comments: https://www.cato.org/blog/circumcision-tylenol-autism-rfk-jr-misses-cut https://www.cato.org/blog/circumcision-tylenol-autism-rfk-jr... Misc including 5g comments: https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/11/15/rfk-jrs-conspiracy-theories-heres-what-trumps-pick-for-health-secretary-has-promoted/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/11/15/rfk-jrs-con...
- tomcam 10mo agoThe Cato.org one is interesting because it only speculates what might have influenced him, then attempts to debunk those sources. Obviously I feel like he should be providing his sources.
- TehCorwiz 10mo agoI chose that source intentionally to underscore that nobody on any part of the political spectrum is actually contesting he said or believes these things. Regardless of how they choose to view them.
- jmuguy 10mo agoListening to him talk about the Spanish Flu, and clearly not understand why secondary bacterial infections killed more people than the flu itself, was my personal point of "wow, this guy is an idiot".
- burkaman 10mo agoIn his book "The Real Anthony Fauci" he spends a whole chapter claiming that HIV does not cause AIDS and it was actually caused by recreational drug use.
- notaustinpowers 10mo agoHe believes germ theory is a creation of Big Pharma to push "patented pills, powders, pricks, potions, and poisons and the powerful professions of virology and vaccinology" He believes in the miasma theory and just maintaining a healthy immune is enough to keep you from getting sick. Just read his book, "The Real Anthony Fauci" and you'll realize that this man shouldn't be trusted to run a kindergarten nurses office.
- oulipo2 10mo agoWell, it's... what we've been told to do (at least in the rest of the world) for more than a century? Packaged as some "app-like" / "tech-like" website? Pathetic
- IncreasePosts 10mo agoI don't think there was guidance to avoid ultra processed foods 100 years ago anywhere in the world. I don't believe that concept even existed, let alone was promulgated by health authorities. But I'd lkvd to be proven wrong.
- oulipo2 10mo agoWell it wasn't there because there was no processed food.. but still the guidance everywhere on earth (except USA) is to eat fresh, non-processed food
- zamalek 10mo agoIf the old wisdom is correct then there is no issue in regurgitating it in a format suitable for a modern audience. We departed from it for a very long time, especially in regards to fat and processed foods. America has been been on a sharp decline in diet-related health. The deeper problem is that you can feed a family with a few bucks at a fast food joint. Eating correctly costs money, money that Americans don't have.
- JumpCrisscross 10mo ago> deeper problem is that you can feed a family with a few bucks at a fast food joint. Eating correctly costs money, money that Americans don't have A fast-food meal is an expensive meal by global standards. The problem is partly cost. And party education and time. But it’s almost certainly not income.
- oulipo2 10mo ago> The deeper problem is that you can feed a family with a few bucks at a fast food joint. Eating correctly costs money, money that Americans don't have. No you can't, in reality. It only seems so because the fast-food industry is heavily subsidized by taxpayer dollars. Organic food would be much more affordable otherwise
- deflator 10mo agoIt was a low bar. The previous nutrition guidelines were garbage for generations
- fullshark 10mo agoAnd what does it say about traditional governance that it takes a someone like RFK to actually do anything about it.
- csoups14 10mo agoThat a majority of your populace not caring about how they're governed is bad for a democratic republic.
- zachthewf 10mo agoor maybe the nutrition guidelines just don't matter that much.
- csoups14 10mo agoThat's clearly true, given people by and large know what's good and bad for them but their consumption choices need to factor in a much larger set of pressing constraints like price, availability, and readiness and more abstract constraints like "am I able to be at home with my child and cook for them or do I need to work a second job to make ends meet?" I will not trust a single word from RFK's mouth until he has something to say about food deserts and prices and a plan to do something about it. Until then, he's done the easiest part which bureaucrats specialize in, which is publishing an updated set of guidelines.
- xphos 10mo agoI disagree I think nutrition guidence is extremely important and in the precense of horrible examples nations get really unhealthy. The only country 1st world country not to have really obese people is Japan (~5% obese ~20% overweight). (~35% obsese ~70% overweight US) and I'd wager a large part of that is the fact that kids cook for themselves in school so they learn early what a reasonable meal is. They also learn how to cook not that they do that forever but setting reasonable food expectations is extremely important. Being obese as a kid is almost causal for being obese later in life[1] as becoming obese screws up a lot of your bodies biology permenantly. You can of course change and become healthier but many lingering symptoms linger regardless of you losing weight. While still 70% obese adults were not obese as children 80% of obese children end up being obese. Open to other ideas but school meals and peoples relationship with food is extremely important to maintaining weight in my experience. [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26696565/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26696565/
- great_wubwub 10mo agoThe man is stark raving bonkers mad in that head-in-the-sand, if-I-ignore-science-then-it-can't-hurt-me way but (and OMG I think I'm going to throw up a little in my mouth even coming close to agreeing with anything that come out of his mouth) isn't that basically what we've been doing with dietary guidelines since the 80s? Like, don't get me wrong, RFK will kill N*10^5, N*10^6 people with his outlook on diseases, but....how many people have had their lives wrecked by "fat makes you fat", "ketchup is a vegetable", and "eat a balanced diet composed entirely of sausage, flour, and sugar"? As a GenXer I've been dealing with the echoes of this for a long time.
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- luddit3 10mo agoThey have been scrutinized by many tests by multiple governments over decades. The do your own research crowd needs to take their own medicine on vaccines.
- lfmhd 10mo agoThere IS scrutiny on vaccines, by the scientific and medical community - your "scrutiny" (as presumably neither a PhD in a relevant field or MD) is not valuable or relevant. There is decades of research that says that currently recommended vaccines are safe and effective.
- SoftTalker 10mo agoAnd the anti-vax crowd was a minority fringe until recently (they still pretty much are but they have some new vocal proponents now). The politicization, lies, and misinformation about the COVID vaccine in particular really damaged decades of trust that had been built.
- ASinclair 10mo agoThe problem is the massive emphasis on eating as a part of health. As if eating right is the only thing you need to do to avoid all disease. That putting other substances (e.g. vaccines) in your body will make you unhealthy.
- csoups14 10mo agoEvidence please.
- ASinclair 10mo agoEvidence of what exactly? That RFK Jr. focuses on healthy eating while vilifying vaccines and other established health practices?
- BanAntiVaxxers 10mo agoI do not think there is room for anti-vaxxers on this site.
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- NelsonMinar 10mo agoA stopped clock is right twice a day. These recommendations come from a corrupted source and therefore have no value.
- brianf0 10mo agoThis... is so silly.
- buellerbueller 10mo ago...but you just made the argument that corrupted sources can be, on occasion, correct.
- Dylan16807 10mo agoThere's no contradiction there. A stopped clock is sometimes right and has no information value. If a particular clock was never right, that would actually give it positive information value, because it would at least tell you one time it isn't. One of the big design flaws of the engima machine was that no plaintext letter ever encrypted to the same letter.
- Aurornis 10mo agoThis has been the running theme so far: Big talk to energize the base and make a splash, followed by actual policy implementations that are much more down to earth. Remember all the talk about banning COVID vaccines? In the end they just changed the wording of the federal recommendations and included things like "having a sedentary lifestyle" as one of the vague reasons to get a COVID vaccine. In some states you had to get a doctor to write a prescription, annoyingly, but the overall picture is that it's still much easier to get a COVID vaccine in the US than under something like the NHS.
- Aurornis 10mo agoToo late to edit, but I see I'm getting downvoted. To clarify, I'm not in support of the actions or the administration. I'm just pointing out that this is becoming a trend where they say one thing but do something milder. Regarding the NHS: Here's a link showing NHS COVID-19 vaccine eligibility, which is highly restricted relative to the access we enjoy in the United States: https://staustellhealthcare.nhs.uk/surgery-information/news/nhs-covid-19-vaccine-eligibility-for-autumnwinter-2025 https://staustellhealthcare.nhs.uk/surgery-information/news/... Again, I'm not saying the current system is good or that the NHS has it right, but trying to put it in perspective.
- diegocg 10mo agoI'm surprised that governments didn't take this problem more seriously. Obesity is a huge problem, people have been ignoring it only because improvements in medicine have been offsetting the general health decline. Without the medical improvements that save the life of obese people, life expectancy would have decreased. I don't expect the Trump administration to make the best decisions but at least they are taking it somewhat more seriosly.
- subpixel 10mo agoI don't believe the creators of this propaganda take this problem seriously at all. Their actions speak far louder than their words, even words on a page that scrolls weird like it's 2015.
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- tootie 10mo agoRepublicans were actively angry at past attempts to fight obesity or limit sugar. There is another side to the nutrition recommendations beyond pure nutrition and that's economics. Pro business Republicans were loathe to anger big food producers. On the flip side, this new food guide is now advocating a diet that is far more expensive for average consumers at a time when food inflation is already hurting so many households.
- notatoad 10mo agofrom what i can tell, most of this is existing stuff that advocates have been trying to push for a while now. i think it's a perfect example of why advocates for any policy should have specific, achievable, and well-documented goals - you never know who might be an ally. politicians don't want to do this sort of detailed work, they're looking for preexisting policy they can champion, and if you're standing there ready to hand it to them when they're looking for it you get get good stuff done.
- tombert 10mo agoYeah, I was about to say this. Even before RFK Jr rubbed his metaphorical nutsack all over our healthcare system, doctors pretty much always told me to eat better. They told me to avoid processed foods, avoid sugar, and focus on fiber and protein. I don't know why RFK Jr. is getting credit for telling people to eat healthy, especially since some of his recommendations (e.g. telling people to eat french fries if they're fried in beef tallow) are actively bad and will likely lead to people becoming more overweight and less healthy.
- kulahan 10mo agoBecause nobody else changed the food pyramid to be somewhat not-garbage until him. Who else would you congratulate for this specific action? Your own personal doctor??
- jasonlotito 10mo ago> Because nobody else changed the food pyramid to be somewhat not-garbage until him. The food pyramid hasn't been a thing for more than a decade. He did bring it back. > Who else would you congratulate for this specific action? The people who pushed for stuff like this more than a decade ago, but conservatives opposed it because it was done by a black lady.
- kulahan 10mo agoIt's a pretty straight-forward question - you can just say "Michelle Obama" or whoever you're referring to instead. I never understand the desire to actively present yourself as someone throwing a tantrum. If that's not who you're referring to, please correct me.
- hairofadog 10mo agoThe problem in my eyes is that it's performative. They're making this announcement as if they're doing something revolutionary (they're switching the food pyramid diagram around) while at the same time doing so much to damage the health of Americans: dramatically cutting healthcare access, bringing vaccine denialism to the mainstream, holding press conferences in which they wildly assert that nobody should ever take Tylenol, elevating discourse around quackerism like Methylene blue. The list goes on. And they're making this announcement after spending the entirity of the Obama administration vilifying Flotus for trying to raise awareness of healthy eating.
- cons0le 10mo agoIts the same thing with eliminating red40 dye. its a crumb. At the very least they should end corn syrup subsidies. Its telling how people often bring up people buying candy with food stamps, but never trace the source of the problem back to how we subsidize bad food. America has a huge blindspot for corporate welfare
- pstuart 10mo agoThere remains concerns about saturated fat, especially for those with high cholesterol levels. I recognize that mistakes have been made in the past (low fat diets, fear of salt, etc), but it seems like RFK et al are driven by ideology rather than science.
- Flere-Imsaho 10mo agoRFK is a pretty fit, healthy guy. Whatever he believes is certainly working.
- uoaei 10mo agoPoe's law in action. This is the guy famous for having and being proud of his brain worm.
- Waterluvian 10mo agoYeah but I’ve seen a documentary, Futurama I think it was called, that showed the cognitive benefits of having worms.
- shwaj 10mo agoThat’s what he’s famous for, huh? Nobody knew who he was until he burst onto the national stage because of his brain worm. And please show a source that he was “proud” of the affliction.
- uoaei 9mo agoYes that's what he's famous for. That and being so desperate to find out who hired Sirhan to kill his father. If he was famous to you before the Trump admin, that's because you're an anti-vaxxer.
- andrewmutz 10mo agoA friend of mine is in great shape and smokes cigarettes
- Waterluvian 10mo agoI’m pinning the blame for the frustrating animate-while-you-scroll design squarely on RFK.
- stainablesteel 10mo agoit's a terrible design and i can't believe they've done this to the american people
- xp84 10mo agoIt actually behaves surprisingly well when you just scroll with the spacebar, as I always do[1]. [1] note: using this method (spacebar to jump one screenful, and shift-spacebar to go back up) on sites that insist on doing the "sTiCkY hEaDeR" idiocy results in losing a line or two on every page, so, I guess, don't get too used to it as it's hard to use today.
- Waterluvian 10mo agoI can’t find the space bar on my iPhone and I’m afraid to ask now.
- andreygrehov 10mo agoApple has been using this UX for years. Blaming it on RFK is ridiculous.
- 303uru 10mo agoThere's absolutely no need for the average American to eat more protein, we are eating more protein than ever and health outcomes are not improving. Likewise, the dairy intake recommendation is not backed by any science whatsoever.
- anonzzzies 10mo agoWhen I went as a kid with my parents to the US, there was this 'milk, it does a body good' commercial playing all the time. While in my country there was already talk that it really doesn't do a body good. Not sure what it ended up with, but we definitely never had the kind of gallons of milk in the fridge and grabbing cartons when you want something to drink.
- rainsford 10mo agoI had a similar reaction. Although I can't help but notice that even in something like this it included the now obligatory combative culture war framing with "we are ending the war on protein".
- ehnto 10mo agoIt must be such a tiring way to live, constantly enflamed in imaginary thought wars.
- sejje 10mo agoThat's not how it works, they're just inflating the importance of their work by elevating it to a battlefield, and they're the heroes. You see it across all kinds of industries. Presumably each individual is just engaged in the solitary imaginary thought war. Surely they're not soldiers on multiple fronts. Superheroes?
- ruszki 10mo agoThere is a difference between inflating your work, and flat out lie. The previous guidelines weren’t against protein at all. The mentioned war didn’t exist at all in these. The protein target is about the same as 10 years ago. Back then the only recommendation regarding this was, that more seafood and nuts would be better for almost everybody, and for some people less meat. So generally, that we should consume more protein. So the “war” wasn’t there.
- mock-possum 10mo agoAu contrair, wars invigorate reactionaries, they don’t know any other way to live.
- blitzar 10mo agowars invigorate donations, they don’t know any other way to make money
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- geraneum 10mo agoI wonder how affordable or accessible is it in US to follow this effectively. I know it’s important to have an informative guideline, but isn’t it strangely reminiscent of “just say no”?
- analog31 10mo agoSure. Give him a participation trophy. Assuming the guidelines aren't just to promote favored industries like meat production.
- tylervigen 10mo agoBetter than which one? I don't think it's really an improvement over either the exercise slice pyramid nor the "choose my plate" recommendation. It is better than the popular one from the 90s though, sure. https://www.familyconsumersciences.com/2011/06/usda-food-pyramid-replaced-by-food-guide-dinner-plate/ https://www.familyconsumersciences.com/2011/06/usda-food-pyr...
- staticassertion 10mo agoThe problem is framing this as "most americans are sick" and blaming it on diet.
- zarzavat 10mo ago40% of the population is obese. The framing seems on point to me. The actual advice is less so. Even more red meat is not the solution.
- staticassertion 10mo agoYou don't think that's in part because of economics, education, healthcare, or other factors? The framing of this site is that it is purely a "you're eating wrong" problem.
- rnd33 10mo agoA large part of the world population is poor, and they do not have the same level of health problems, nor are they similarly obese. Not purely diet related, but a huge part of it for sure.
- staticassertion 9mo agoIt would be great to see some comparisons. I'm not claiming that "poor" is the singular indicator so it's obviously going to come down to which countries you're referring to. I'm also not claiming that diet isn't a part of it, not even close. But the framing of the site is problematic to me.
- LorenPechtel 9mo agoFinally someone addresses the king's attire! State a problem. Propose a "solution" without doing anything to establish that it is actually a solution. Make it about "real", ignore the real issue of what one gets from the calories consumed. It's not the processing that makes food bad, it's that ultraprocessed foods are optimized for enjoyable eating, messing up our body's regulatory system. We eat too many calories too fast and get little from them other than calories. Especially objectionable to me is whole milk. It's so easy to drink so many calories.
- unsupp0rted 10mo agoWill this cause you to update your priors about RFK?
- rco8786 10mo agoMost of it seems fine, although eating even more meat than we already do is a bit perplexing. The new "guidelines" for alcohol are pretty laughable though. I say that as someone who enjoys his fair share of beers. “The implication is don’t have it for breakfast," <- direct quote from celebrity Dr Oz during the press conference.
- roland35 10mo agoThere is some good health advice mixed in with the rest of the MAHA lunacy, particularly around diet and exercise. Unfortunately their stances on vaccines, supplements, and mental health make are still awful
- nonethewiser 10mo agoYeah I'm failing to see the problem here. They are very common sense guidelines for a population that is missing the mark big time.