Posted on 11/08/2014 8:54:53 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The federal committee charged with creating nutrition guidelines for Americans is calling for fat interventions at workplaces.
During a presentation at the sixth meeting of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) on Friday, the committee said government needs to take “bold action” to fight obesity.
The solutions included “comprehensive” obesity interventions in “health care, the community, public health facilities, and work sites.”
“The public should monitor body weight and engage with providers in evidence-based approaches aimed at achieving and maintaining healthy body weight,” the panel said in a presentation on “Food and Nutrient Intakes, and Health.”
The committee, which is responsible for creating new nutrition standards that are used to create policy at the federal level, has previously called for moving Americans to “plant-based” diets, and using text message interventions to get people to lose weight.
“Bold action is needed to confront the Nation’s obesity epidemic and its devastating metabolic consequences,” a slide said during the presentation on Friday. “Quality of care guidelines need to be revised to incentivize personalized lifestyle and nutrition interventions.”
The committee said it is “imperative” to create obesity interventions that would bring in “trained interventionists and professional nutrition service providers” for “delivery in multiple settings.”
The panel claimed that 65 percent of adult females and 70 percent of adult males are overweight or obese, and argued that “environmental strategies” are needed to fight obesity.
“Complement health care and public health initiatives with collaborative programming in agriculture, retail, educational, and social service settings lifestyle for long-term adoption of health nutrition and lifestyle behavior,” read one recommendation.
Dr. Barbara Millen, the chair of DGAC, said obesity interventions must be expanded beyond health care settings.
“It’s pretty clear in a public health model with focus on the individual as well as the populations that all of this cannot be accomplished in a health care setting,” she said. “It really will take a broad strategy across environments … not only traditional health care, community settings. And these can’t be a siloed approach but across sectors to be effective.”
Dr. Anna Maria Siega-Riz, a nutritional epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, agreed and called for more monitoring of children’s weight, and for mandatory doctors visits.
“I was pretty much stunned, though I’m quite well aware of the chronic health care outcomes for young adults and preadolescents,” she said. “The more we can do to call for really bold action among these groups in a meaningful way of trying to combat this.”
“Not just going with schools, but when we think about the health care system, there are very little check ups required for kids,” Siega-Riz said. “We can make a strong call for more monitoring and help for this population before they actually carry out these outcomes for the rest of their lives.”
The committee continued to push for American’s to consume less meat, and recommended the Mediterranean diet, which consists of eating primarily plant-based foods.
Siega-Riz’s presentation recommended “lower consumption of red meats, moderate intake of alcohol, [and] low intake of sugar-sweetened foods and drinks.”
“The U.S. population should consume dietary patterns that are: rich in vegetables, fruits, whole grains, low-fat dairy, fish/seafood, legumes, lean meat, and nuts,” a slide said.
The committee has been criticized for putting environmentalism over food science. Angela Tagtow, who was appointed to oversee DGAC this summer, has called for “social justice” in food policy and says she takes an “ecological” approach to nutrition.
And think of the healthy exercise you would be getting!!!
The arrogance of these people is stunning. Without any consideration or reflection, these elites think they have a right to order others as they see fit. We are their slaves, in their mind.
I just finished reading an article that indicated that the diet of most Americans actually lacks quality proteins ...needed for a healthy metabolism.
I started counting my grams of REAL protein only to be stunned that I was consuming only 1/3 to half of what is recommended. After that realization, I consciously set a protein meal plan this past week for myself.
Here at the end of one week I can report that I do have more energy, feel more satiated, and while I have not lost weight...I am not midnight snacking anymore. I am sleeping better without the annoying awakening in the middle of the night.
I suspect in a month’s time I’ll lose a few pounds, but finally feeling better was half the battle.
It’s fat in government that needs an intervention!
Where in the constitution does the power to do this reside?
I'm not convinced at all, 65% to 70 % of adults are overweight or obese...
Go to any place were people are out and about and nowhere near that many people are overweight..
Granted it's way more than it should be...
I don't think the federal government will be happy until we all look like concentration camp victims...
For myself to be the "correct" BMI, I would look like a skeleton ...
This is dangerously close to the government mandating everyone stand together and exercise at work for 30 minutes a day, paid for your time or docked pay if you don’t.
This is one reason the democrats lost the elections. They need to get the hell out of other peoples lives and mind their own business.
Best post of the thread!
Work where there is a danger of a fall exceeding four feet must be accomplished tied off with a harness meeting the requirements of ANSI Z359 FALL PROTECTION STANDARD
It's right in the "General Welfare" clause...
Ask any dope smoking libtard "constitutional scholar" with a 8th grade education, and they will point you in the right direction... / S
I’ve had no trouble losing weight eating mostly carbs.
Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC).
On the first tier list of agencies and organizations of the federal government to no longer be funded.
Did you also notice that no one quoted in the article seems able to speak in grammatical sentences? I suspect that is because they are trying to fit in all the current buzz-phrases.
I’m not arguing that the government should be forcing us what to eat. I’m arguing that that the government should top trying to teach us what to eat.
I don’t object to people drinking HFCS soft drinks. It’s their life and their choice. I don’t object to manufacturers putting HFCS in sodas and yogurts and tomato paste, so long as it’s labeled so I can choose something else.
What I object to is the government putting out guidelines that purport that eating low-fat, high-carb, highly processed foods is healthy.
For most of my life I ate junk. And my health suffered. But my biggest problem was that on the occasions that I decided I needed to eat “better”, the diet that the official recommendations told me would make me better - low fat, low-calorie, high-fiber, high-carb - made me worse.
Government recommendations are inherently the result of a political process - and political processes cannot, by their nature, produce good science.
Anyone writing such gibberish should be stripped of all academic credentials, flogged publicly, and be made to spend a month in the same room with First LardAss Mooochelle.
OMG !
Some of them are SMOKING ! ! !
What need is a fat intervention in government.
NO needs to plan an intervention with So Florida’s Dine and Dash ladies.
MO. I hate this auto correct feature.
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