Show 991: New Dietary Guidelines for Americans
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2015
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
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 the 2015 Guidelines? The advisory committee has issued its report, which is open for comments until May 8.
We discuss the proposed changes to the dietary guidelines with two eminent nutrition scientists with very different perspectives. One is an advocate of high-fat, low-carb eating patterned on the recommendations of Dr. Robert Atkins. The other is himself a vegetarian and a proponent of plant-based diets.
Listen to find out about the similarities and differences in their evaluations of the recommendations. What should we be eating?
This Week’s Guests:
Christopher Gardner, PhD, is professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center in Palo Alto, CA.
Eric Westman, MD, MHS, is director of the Duke Lifestyle Medicine Clinic and associate professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center. He is author of The New Atkins for a New You and, with Jimmy Moore, KetoClarity: Your Definitive Guide to the Benefits of a Low Carb, High Fat Diet.
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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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