{"id":4538,"date":"2011-02-01T06:39:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T04:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2015-02-16T09:02:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:02:25","slug":"who-would-have-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/who-would-have-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Would Have Thought?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USDA &amp; the Dept. of Health and Human Services\u00a0just released\u00a0a new, updated\u00a0set of dietary guidelines.\u00a0\u00a0Except that they aren&#8217;t new,\u00a0unless you&#8217;ve\u00a0been hiding under a rock for &#8211; say &#8211; the last 20\u00a0 years. Seriously: the recommendations are things like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eat fewer calories.<\/li>\n<li>Exercise more.<\/li>\n<li>Cut back on\u00a0sodium.<\/li>\n<li>Eat less sugar, saturated fat\/solid fat and refined grains.<\/li>\n<li>Eat more veggies, fruits, whole grains, low fat dairy products and lean protein sources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, duuuuuh, right? \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/01\/business\/01food.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">But the New York Times sez it&#8217;s\u00a0major progress!<\/a> Why?\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the recommendations may seem obvious, it is nonetheless considered major progress for federal regulators, who have long skirted the issue, wary of the powerful food lobby. (The 112-page report even subtly suggests that people eat less pizza and dessert.)<\/p>\n<p>Previous guidelines urged Americans to curb sugar, solid fats and salt, but avoided naming specific foods, let alone urging consumers to eat less food over all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor them to have said \u2018eat less\u2019 is really new. Who would have thought?\u201d said Margo G. Wootan, director of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. \u201cWe should have been saying \u2018eat less\u2019 for a decade.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sigh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I knew that USDA recommendations were heavily politicized, but seriously&#8230; if this account is true, then the agency is even more spineless than I previously realized. &#8220;Who would have thought?&#8221; indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USDA &amp; the Dept. of Health and Human Services\u00a0just released\u00a0a new, updated\u00a0set of dietary guidelines.\u00a0\u00a0Except that they aren&#8217;t new,\u00a0unless you&#8217;ve\u00a0been hiding under a rock for &#8211; say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,17,28],"tags":[1198,1714],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9652,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions\/9652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}