As a whole, Americans – and especially teenage boys and men – are being urged to eat less animal protein and more vegetables.
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Alcohol: Up to one glass a day for women, two for men.
Furthermore, the use of meat, with preference to lean meat and seafood has been stipulated.
That message to cut the red meat should have been stated more directly, says Barry Popkin, a nutrition researcher at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. That panel had suggested calling for an environmentally friendly diet lower in red and processed meats and de-emphasized lean meats in its list of proteins that are part of a healthful diet. There is some good news as you don’t have to worry about the natural sugar in an apple or raisins because Lustig said processed foods are the problem. The guidelines have stated that instead of consuming saturated fats, people should concentrate more on consuming healthy fats such as Omega 3 and trans-fat in nut oils.
“If you just drink one can of pop a day, that’s going to be a wheelbarrow full of sugar”.
The dietary guidelines for sodium on that remain the same, with the recommendation that people 14 and older eat no more than 2,300mg. per day. They maintained their recommendation of consuming less than 2,300mg of sodium per day and limiting saturated fat to less than 10 percent of your daily calories, and their recommendations for protein stayed consistent with 2010’s guidelines (46g a day for an adult female and 56g a day for an adult male).
For more information, you can read the 2015 guidelines here, and the Top 10 Things You Need to Know About the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans here.
“These changes are not at odds with previous versions of the guidelines”, noted Ali Berg, a UGA Cooperative Extension nutrition and health specialist and faculty member in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences.
Still pushing fruits and vegetables, the newest recommendation appears to target added sugar.
One of the most significant new recommendations puts a strict limit on added sugar.
That recommendation is gone, following increasing medical research showing the amount of cholesterol in your bloodstream is more complicated than once thought.
Still, egg lovers aren’t completely off the hook. However, new evidence suggests dietary cholesterol does not raise blood cholesterol levels.
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While senior administration officials on Thursday denied bowing to pressure from the food industry, Kari Hamerschlag, senior program manager with the advocacy group Friends of the Earth, said in a statement that the new guidelines ignored strong scientific evidence on the need to eat less meat for health, food security and environmental reasons.
