Newsletter Update | February 6, 2018

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The Nutrition Coalition Update | February 6, 2018 FEATURED USDA Backs Reform of the Dietary Guidelines U.S. News and World Report "Best Diets" Shown Not to be Evidence-Based Low-Carb Diet Clinical Trial Numbers Show Definitively: Not a "Fad" GOOD NEWS FROM WASHINGTON The US Department of Agriculture announced that among the agency’s priorities for the Farm Bill currently being written in Congress is to “Assure the scientific integrity of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans process through greater transparency and reliance on the most robust body of scientific evidence. “ This is an important statement and should lead to significant change. WHY THE U.S. DIETARY GUIDELINES MATTER Last week in The New York Times, a physician lamented that hospitals are serving, MD-backed “nutrition booster” drinks like Ensure--full of sugar (pictured above). High-carbohdyrate hospital food is the norm, even for diabetic patients, a direct consequence of the Guidelines prescribing high-carb diets for all. This is why the Guidelines should not be a one-size-fits-all diet and why they need reform. BEYOND #ALTFACTS IN NUTRITION Beyond #Altfacts in Nutrition Since January is diet month, plenty of status-quo nutritional advice made headlines: U.S News and World Report published it’s annual “best diets” cover story, ranking DASH/Mediterranean first and ketogenic dead last. In a joint op-ed in the LA Times, Gary Taubes and Nina Teicholz took a hard look at the evidence and concluded that the U.S. News rankings don’t reflect the science. Jane Brody, New York Times health columnist since 1976, writes yet another column saying that saturated fats are bad and should be replaced with vegetable oils. She quotes only experts from Harvard (longtime promoters of vegetable oils) and does not even acknowledge the existence of a debate on the topic of saturated fats, despite writing on that exact debate in her last column on the topic (“Should We Be Scared of Butter?”). It seems she is now just shoring up defense of her long-held beliefs. THE NEW SCIENCE ON METABOLIC DISEASES Dig into the details with this comprehensive list of over 70 clinical trials on the low-carb diet, on nearly 7,000 patients. In all of these controlled trials, lower-carb, higher-fat regimes perform as well or better than the lower-fat alternative regimens. One of the critiques of the low-carb diet is that it's an anecdotal "fad," yet this large body of scientific evidence disproves that. WORTH WATCHING A terrific new documentary, The Magic Pill, has just been released on iTunes, Vimeo, Amazon, and Google Play. This is a potent film about the power of real food to heal disease, by super-talented filmmaker Rob Tate. Watch this film! Then watch this space; The Nutrition Coalition will be supporting screenings of this film in local theaters, organized by members like you. PARADIGM CHANGE - IT'S HAPPENING Here are just two examples of mainstream institutions embracing real food. Weight Watchers just named eggs a "zero point" food, meaning you can eat as many of them as you like. KNOW Foods, a grain-free, sugar-free line of baked goods (and chocolate chips!) that aims to minimize insulin effects is being rolled out in all Wegmans supermarkets in stand-alone cases. NUTRITION FUN What are the roots of the vegetarian fad in America? Turns out it was the hippie movement. NPR reports on a new, interesting book—Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat. TO GET INVOLVED IN THE NUTRITION COALITION Sign our petition for Dietary Guidelines that are evidence based. SIGN HERE We need your support to work for evidence-based Dietary Guidelines--to make America healthy again. DONATE Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up for the newsletter at www.nutritioncoalition.us The Nutrition Coalition is a nonprofit educational and advocacy organization working to strengthen national nutrition policy so that it is founded upon a comprehensive body of conclusive science, and where that science is absent, to encourage additional research. We accept no money from any interested industry or commercial interest. This update was written with help by Jenni Calihan. Copyright © 2018 The Nutrition Coalition, All rights reserved.