#440: Are Dietary Guidelines Trying To Kill Us?

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

It has become common rhetoric for those promoting various types of diets to suggest that dietary guidelines published by government departments are at best, unhealthy, or at worst, causative in driving obesity and chronic disease in the population.

While different countries and organizations produce their own guidelines, with slight differences, most of the conversation has focused on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, that are created by the USDA.

Often the claims is that following these guidelines actually harms health, rather than promote it. And the guidelines are simply a result of industry forces, long-standing bias, and shoddy science.

But do these claims hold up to scrutiny? In this episode Alan and Danny look at some of the arguments put foward, and take a look at the science underpinning dietary guidelines in a number of countries.

In this episode:

[0.01.46] Examples of arguments put forward stating that it’s not healthy to follow dietary guidelines
[0.12.50] History of the development of guidelines in the US & narratives around Ancel Keys
[0.23.50] Misrepresentation of what the guidelines say
[0.30.49] What are actually in the current Dietary Guidelines for Americans?
[0.33.10] Changes to guidelines over time
[0.36.05] Other countries’ guidelines: UK, Canada, Nordic countries
[0.40.50] Investigating the rise in obesity/disease prevalence with the roll out of the guidelines
[0.56.34] Do people follow the guidelines?
[1.00.01] The negative role of the food industry
[1.03.50] Potential issues with dietary guidelines

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1:17.7	Hello, and Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio.
1:21.3	This is episode 440 of the podcast.
1:25.3	My name is Danny Lennon and with me is, of course, Alan Flanagan. Alan.
1:26.1	I'm my usual nihilistic self but otherwise
1:29.3	generally optimistic about this episode if not for the rest of the world. Well if you can get
1:35.0	through some of the claims we're going to address today and not be nihilistic then we'll be doing
1:39.9	well because there is a lot of cause for nihilism when you see the popularity of some ideas we
1:45.3	might look at. Of course, today we're talking all about dietary guidelines generally and
1:50.6	particularly the idea that there's a line of thinking that they are out to get us in some way,
1:58.4	that the dietary guidelines have been set up as a way to make
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