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They ignored the trials showing the low-fat diet didn't work.

They ignored the trial showing that replacing saturated fat with unsaturated vegetable oils

did not have any effect on reducing heart disease or cardiovascular mortality.

And that's the way they arrive at the conclusions that they do only by ignoring the evidence.

And then they produce these guidelines that are truly not evidence-based

by any conventional definition of that word. There are multiple randomized controlled clinical trials

showing that people can reverse their type 2 diabetes, obesity, and other conditions within weeks,

really, by going on a very low carbohydrate diet or ketogenic diet. Pharmaceutical companies

fund a lot of nutrition researchers, and they may do this because they have like a product,

like a formula-based diet that they want to promote. But they also have an interest in dietary

recommendations that produce human beings who are not healthy and who then need their pharmaceutical products. There was a

great Lancet editorial on this where they basically said, you know, the science is completely

being ignored on sodium. It's just a wild ride out there in the world of what you think is

nutrition science. Nina, if you're given total control over the current dietary guidelines, what would our new

my plate look like?

So we have the food pyramid.

I mean, that's the last, right, we do have my plate.

But really, I think the food pyramid is the one that people most still relate to because

my plate is such a

vague kindergarten graphic. Okay, here's what we would need to do to change dietary guidelines.

So currently, there are three dietary patterns that are offered by the guidelines. The guidelines

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