The guidelines encourage Americans to adopt a series of recommendations to improve how they eat and to reduce obesity and prevent chronic diseases.
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Protein can be consumed by eating seafood, lean meat, and poultry. While many have been waiting for these new recommendations, what they DHHS now advises has been met with a bit of concern.
At least half of grains consumed should be whole-grain. And keep sugar, fats and salt in moderation. The guidelines are advocating for healthy eating patterns that depend on a person’s tastes, needs and budget.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture released on Thursday the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
“Small changes can add up to big differences”, said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
“Eating less red meat is good for all of us and good for the planet”.
As in previous years, the government says lean meat is part of a more healthful diet. This translates to about 50 grams of sugar per day, when based on a 2,000-calorie diet. The guidelines suggest limiting sugar to 10 percent of your daily calories. This does not include naturally occurring sugars such as those in milk and fruits. “I think people probably don’t recognize how much they are consuming and with the change and shift in how we eat these days, you’re simply able to get a whole lot of sugar without even knowing it”.
The new guidelines ditch the long-held belief that you should limit cholesterol intake to 300 milligrams a day, in light of evidence that dietary cholesterol is not what makes LDL cholesterol rise. This is what you need to know about the new dietary guidelines in short words, but if you want more details, feel free to check the 500 pages guidelines.
Longstanding limits on dietary cholesterol were removed, reflecting new scientific research on the role of genetics. Plus, it’s a misconception that dietary cholesterol affects blood cholesterol levels-study after study has disproved this, as Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., author of The Great Cholesterol Myth told us in High Cholesterol Foods Are Off The Dietery Hit List.
Still, egg lovers aren’t completely off the hook. Created to take the confusion out of what constitutes healthy eating for consumers, the guidelines were developed by an external advisory committee that included researchers and scientists in the fields of nutrition, health and medicine, which met in public meetings from June 2013 to December 2014.
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“The administration has clearly put the financial interests of the meat industry over the weight of the science and the health of the American people”, she said.
