USDA Suggests Changes to Grocery Stores to ‘Nudge’ Consumers to Eat Healthy

The Washington Free Beacon ^ | July 15, 2014 | Elizabeth Harrington

[dforest]

I can see a bunch of smashed up shopping carts in the future.

[dforest]

That comes after the government blows tax payer dollars on the nudge.

[grania]

I'd be okay with SNAP regulations that say welfare can only be spent on raw unprocessed foods.

Where that might do the most good is school cafeterias where the students get their breakfast, lunch, and healthy snack for free. A lot of them serve processed foods instead of cooking up a healthy meal.

For truly poor people (which the gov knows nothing about) fresh foods aren't a real good option. Many don't have proper refrigeration or even storage if they're truly poor and don't even have decent housing. Many live a distance from a good well stocked grocery store, so get to the store less than once a week. There are good processed foods without additives and made with fully ripe fruits and veggies. They're more likely to be healthy than preparing foods in unsanitary conditions would be.

I did a "food stamp challenge" last autumn. FWIW, there are healthy, traditional, very reasonably priced canned foods that are good choices. If you're truly poor, you can't take the economic risk of fresh food or leftovers going bad.

[MeshugeMikey]

theres likely a good :”visual” in there somewhere..

Im gonna wait for this coffee to take effect before I attempt it...

Thank you.

[KosmicKitty]

new specialized shopping carts

Hope that the carts also help the homeless dude picking through the trash to make appropriate selections in each approved category

[ELS]

I’d be ok with SNAP regulation that says welfare can only be spent on raw unprocessed foods

Didn't it used to be that way, that food stamps could only be spent on certain foods?

Since most of the recipients don't work, they have the time to prepare healthy meals using those fresh ingredients. I'd love to have the time to prepare all of my meals from fresh, raw ingredients.

[ELS]

The USDA also recommended standards for how shelves should be stocked. For example: “at least half of all shelf space in the dairy case should be allocated for low-fat or skim milk.”

Bzz, wrong answer, thanks for playing. Why You Need to Avoid Low-Fat Milk and Cheese

The belief that saturated fat will increase your risk of heart attacks and cardiovascular disease is simply untrue. A 2010 study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition,8 which reviewed 21 studies relating to the risk of heart disease, stroke, and saturated fats, found that:

"… there is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of CHD [coronary heart disease] or CVD [stroke and cardiovascular disease]."

Saturated fats provide the building blocks for your cell membranes and a variety of hormones and hormone-like substances that are essential to your health, and saturated fats from animal and vegetable sources (such as meat, dairy, certain oils, and tropical plants like coconut) provide a concentrated source of energy in your diet.

When you eat fats as part of your meal, they slow down absorption so that you can go longer without feeling hungry. In addition, they act as carriers for important fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K. Dietary fats are also needed for the conversion of carotene to vitamin A, for mineral absorption, and for a host of other biological processes.

Saturated fats are also:

• The preferred fuel for your heart, and also used as a source of fuel during energy expenditure
• Useful antiviral agents (caprylic acid)
• Effective as an anticaries, antiplaque and anti-fungal agent (lauric acid)
• Useful to actually lower cholesterol levels (palmitic and stearic acids)
• Modulators of genetic regulation and prevent cancer (butyric acid)

[ELS]

Saturated Fat Phobia Lacks Scientific Basis

[TexasRepublic]

No more caviar for the welfare class!