Nina Teicholz, the woman in yesterday's video, was invited to submit testimony to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture regarding their official nutritional guidelines. A new guideline will be published in 2020.
What did she tell them? "You must focus on disputed topics!" She is an influential voice for one of those topics, the low-carbohydrate diet. Her message is that the official nutritional guideline's promotion of grains while blaming meat/fats for disease is contrary to established evidence.
Her claim is an uncommon one, but she's not completely alone. Nutrition Coalition brings attention to the disputed topics:
- Salt: is lower always better?
- Saturated fats: do they cause heart disease?
- Total fat: is the low-fat diet recommended?
- Fat and cancer: does fat of any kind cause cancer?
- Fat and obesity: does fat make you fat?
- Low-carbohydrate diets: have these been adequately researched?
- Dietary cholesterol: does cholesterol in your food lead to higher blood cholesterol?
- Red meat: does it cause heart disease and cancer?
"Disputed" is right. Here is one of her critics.
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