The New Food Rules?

[mama1803]

What do you think of these new food rules?

Personally, I'm not giving up my pastured eggs, meat, and butter or my full fat milk!


http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/healt...rules-1792205/

[Amatullah0]

Its interesting that chemical additives aren't mentioned, and processed foods are mentioned as just a teeny tiny part of the problem. Of course, its the real fats, the butter, eggs, and whole milk that is causing the "obesity epidemic," not the HFCS, or the processed deserts, or the 500,000 calorie mcjunk burgers.

[Arianwen1174]

It cracks me up and pisses me off that the government has to have "rules" about how we should eat. I sure wouldn't give up pastured meat and dairy either, if we could afford it. I have all sorts of snarky comments about the rules, but I'll be good. My response to most of the rules is "Duh!"

[Magelet]

I don't really agree with them. PARTICULARLY that they lumped refined grains and sodium. I know the average american eats too much salt from refined foods, but it would not be healthy for me to reduce my sodium. I eat a lot of sodium, but it is just BARELY enough to keep me from blacking out when I stand up from low blood pressure, and if I don't both keep hydrated AND make sure I get plenty of salt, I still do black out.

I'd say it sounds like the same old BS. low everything really nutritious, high filler, not enough emphasis on how bad the crap is.

My "food rules" would be:

1. Eat lots of traditional healthy fats like butter, coconut oil, lard, tallow, chicken fat, olive oil etc.

2. Eat some animal protein with every meal (whether it's meat or eggs or dairy or fish), some people may need lots, others may need only a little, and make sure to occasionally eat a bit of it raw.

3. Choose whole fat milk, cream, fattier meat cuts etc.

4. If it's processed, or heavily refined, it's crap. This includes homogenization of milk, hydrogenation of lard, white sugar, white flour etc.

5. Avoid all vegetable oils except red palm oil, olive oil, and coconut oil.

6. Eat less sweets. Eat no super refined sugars like HFCS or CS, eat very very sparingly of white sugar (see 4, it's crap) and not too much honey, maple syrup, palm sugar, etc.

7, Salt to taste, eat SLOWLY to satiation. (If you eat fast, it's easier to overeat)

8. Different people have different food needs. If you have health problems/mental/emotional/behavioral problems or just don't feel great, look at your diet first.

9. Dance, play catch with your kids, chase your toddler, do yoga with a video and a friend, walk to work on a nice day, be active.

[ollyoxenfree]

Originally Posted by Arianwen1174

It cracks me up and pisses me off that the government has to have "rules" about how we should eat.

Are they using a catchy term to springboard off of a recent bestseller with that title? I agree that people should use common sense for their food choices, but surprisingly many don't have basic knowledge. Otherwise there wouldn't be an obesity epidemic in the first place.

[Ruthla]

UGH! More "one size fits all" dietary guidelines. I don't like how grains are lumped in with fruits and vegetables, or the general rules to eat less meat. I'm healthiest when I have no or very small amounts of grains (0-2 servings a day, NOT 6-11!!), plenty of meat, and plenty of vegetables. Cutting back on meat consumption would be detrimental to my health- I got healthier by eating fewer grains and beans and more meat.

[ThisCat]

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[mama1803]

Originally Posted by ThisCat

That's actually what I assumed this thread was about when I saw the title. I'm pretty sure they're trying to use Pollan's popularity to their advantage.

This is what I thought also when I saw the title, which is why I clicked to read. I usually don't take my nutrition advice from mainstream media sources.

[Teenytoona]

Meh, the "new food rules" are so similar to what they've been saying for a while now and really they aren't that smart. What they need to do is look at Magelet's list and re-issue a new list - call it the "old food rules" because at least we have some information about how people used to eat. Heh.

[Arduinna]

I don't remember giving them authority over what I eat. Oh yeah, I didn't.

[LavenderMae]

Originally Posted by ThisCat

Anyway, I don't like the rules. I don't like anyones rules right now. How about telling people not to eat too much and get some exercise and eat what makes them feel good and leave it at that. All these food rules are getting to be too much for me. I feel more confused than ever...sugar makes you fat, no saturated fat makes you fat, wait no it doesn't, go TF!, go paleo!, go vegan! go raw! ......

[MammaG]

Magelet, you have been nominated for the position of Maker-of-Diet-Related-Lists. I also move to make a vote of no-confidence in what's-her-name who came up with that other list.