The Washington Diet
Following the government's nutritional advice can make you fat and sick.
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 Last October, embarrassing e-mails leaked from New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene disclosed that officials had stretched the limits of credible science in approving a 2009 antiobesity ad, which depicted a stream of soda pop transforming into human fat as it left the bottle. "The idea of a sugary drink becoming fat is absurd," a scientific advisor warned the department in one of the e-mails, a view echoed by other experts whom the city consulted. Nevertheless, Gotham's health commissioner, Thomas Farley, saw the ad as an effective way to scare people into losing weight, whatever its scientific inaccuracies, and overruled the experts. The dustup, observed the New York Times, "underlined complaints that Dr. Farley's more lifestyle-oriented crusades are based on common-sense bromides that may not withstand strict scientific scrutiny."
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Under Farley and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York's health department has been notoriously aggressive in pursuing such "lifestyle-oriented" campaigns (see the sidebar below). But America's public-health officials have long been eager to issue nutrition advice ungrounded in science, and nowhere has this practice been more troubling than in the federal government's dietary guidelines, first issued by a congressional committee in 1977 and updated every five years since 1980 by the United States Department of Agriculture. Controversial from the outset for sweeping aside conflicting research, the guidelines have come under increasing attack for being ineffective or even harmful, possibly contributing to a national obesity problem. Unabashed, public-health advocates have pushed ahead with contested new recommendations, leading some of our foremost medical experts to ask whether government should get out of the business of telling Americans what to eat-or, at the very least, adhere to higher standards of evidence. Read Full Article |
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Cardiologist Refutes Relationship Between Cholesterol Levels And Heart Attack
The original research that led to putting so many Americans on statins may be flawed. Read
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In Search of The Perfect Human Diet
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