Show 991: New Dietary Guidelines for Americans

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Every five years, the US Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services collaborate on producing Dietary Guidelines for Americans. These are supposed to tell us what we should be eating. They are also used to shape institutional food choices, such as those in schools or prisons. Changes Expected Will there be any changes in […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.
0:02.3	I'm Terry Graydon.
0:03.8	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines.
0:10.2	This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream.
0:16.0	800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com.
0:21.6	Are you confused about food flip-flops?
0:33.9	The new dietary guidelines for Americans will make some significant changes in what we should eat.
0:39.4	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:49.8	The United States Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services will soon issue their joint recommendations on American diets.
0:58.5	For decades, we've been told to avoid cholesterol. Is it safe now to eat eggs?
1:03.1	We'll explore the likely new guidelines with two leading nutrition experts who have very different perspectives on healthy eating.
1:10.7	One is a vegetarian, while the other advocates a low-carb, high-fat diet that includes many
1:17.0	animal products.
1:18.4	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, we try to make sense of current nutrition research
1:23.1	to better understand the new guidelines.
1:26.0	First, this news.
1:30.3	In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines,
1:33.3	children who watch television for more than an hour a day
1:36.3	are at greater risk of being overweight.
1:39.3	Researchers interviewed parents of more than 11,000
1:42.3	kindergartners to investigate the relationship between behavior and obesity.
1:47.4	The study showed that the average 5-year-old watched more than three hours of TV daily.
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