It’s also worth pointing out that the sugar industry spent decades and billions of dollars convincing Americans that fats were much worse than they actually are, which led to its own terrible consequences. There are healthy amounts of fat that a lot of boomers are still terrified of.
These food guidelines have always been more about economics than health anyways. It changes with the political influence of the various agricultural industries in America.
We eat more than enough protein. What we lack is roughage. We’re all in on that ultra processed white bread and corn chip stuff with lots of pasta. The main foods we need to eat more of remains as it always has: vegetables and to a lesser extent unprocessed fruits. We also should shift how we consume starches to healthier variants like baked potatoes. But seriously, it’s fiber, we don’t eat enough fiber
I don’t disagree with that at all. Fiber is massively important.
I suppose what I’m trying to say is, given a constant calorie budget, people would be healthier if they shifted their proportions of calories towards protein and good fats and away from carbohydrates and bad fats. This does not seem like quackery to me, it seems like sound dietary advice.
It really depends on your activity level and what your goals are. To quote from your own source "If you’re actively building muscle with strength or resistance training, more protein can help,” said Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, a Tufts University nutrition expert. “Otherwise, you’re getting enough.”
Most Americans are getting enough protein in their diet because most Americans are less active than they should be and are already eating more than they should be.
Diets should be built around an individuals needs, though fiber is one of the things virtually no one is getting enough of unless your eating like 5 cups of lentils everyday.
I don’t disagree, but veggies and fibers aren’t macronutrients in our current system of nutrition. Fats, carbs, proteins. Of those three, it’s wiser to prioritize proteins over the rest. This is all I’m saying.
That is true, the sugar (and corn,) industry at a minimum has run influence operations demonizing fat for the harms of sugar.
The body actually does not feel full until it gets enough fat, the stomach tastes the contents, if you have no fat you take in way more calories. Also, sugar is half fructose and half glucose. Glucose is good, used as is, that is what they put in hospital IV drips. Fructose gets metabolized in your liver into fat, then used, but the body does not recognize it as a food. It does not contribute to a full feeling.
Every time these dumb motherfuckers get thirsty they swill down pop, with the equivalent of 16 teaspoons of sugar in a 16 ounce. It is a major, if not the largest, factor in obesity.
Fructose could not even be utilized in human ancestors in the monkey days, it was not until a cold wind blew over africa for centuries that our monkey ancestors got the ability to turn that fructose into fat, to use for the periods when we did not have fresh fruit on hand every day all day. According to a national geographic article titled Sugar, now not findable on enshitified search engines because fuck you, (and me, the consumer not a personal dig.)
Are you sure about that last bit with the monkeys? Most fruits contain fructose, it’d be weird if money body just discarded a perfectly good source of backup energy.
Also your liver can metabolise fructose straight into glucose too if needed. Obviously not as fast as eating glucose, but if you were a monke, it might be pretty useful. In today’s sedentary society it’s of course more harmful, but I don’t think fructose itself is inherently bad. We just live lifestyles and have diets where it has little to no place.
It’s also quackery.
almost all nutritionist generated information is shite
It’s literally a South Park joke from a couple years ago too…
Cartman flipped the pyramid, just like RFK Jr did in real life.
he probably going to recommend it eaten raw, he wants to replenish his worms some how.
Focusing on protein and healthy fats over carbohydrates is not quackery.
An insistence on meat/dairy, that’s quackery, but Americans in general eat too many shit tier carbohydrates and fats and not enough protein.
Edit: this is Lemmy. Want fiber and protein? Eat some fuckin’ BEANS.
It’s also worth pointing out that the sugar industry spent decades and billions of dollars convincing Americans that fats were much worse than they actually are, which led to its own terrible consequences. There are healthy amounts of fat that a lot of boomers are still terrified of.
These food guidelines have always been more about economics than health anyways. It changes with the political influence of the various agricultural industries in America.
I already eat beans, cannot afford anything else 😭
We eat more than enough protein. What we lack is roughage. We’re all in on that ultra processed white bread and corn chip stuff with lots of pasta. The main foods we need to eat more of remains as it always has: vegetables and to a lesser extent unprocessed fruits. We also should shift how we consume starches to healthier variants like baked potatoes. But seriously, it’s fiber, we don’t eat enough fiber
I don’t disagree with that at all. Fiber is massively important.
I suppose what I’m trying to say is, given a constant calorie budget, people would be healthier if they shifted their proportions of calories towards protein and good fats and away from carbohydrates and bad fats. This does not seem like quackery to me, it seems like sound dietary advice.
It really depends on your activity level and what your goals are. To quote from your own source "If you’re actively building muscle with strength or resistance training, more protein can help,” said Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, a Tufts University nutrition expert. “Otherwise, you’re getting enough.”
Most Americans are getting enough protein in their diet because most Americans are less active than they should be and are already eating more than they should be.
Diets should be built around an individuals needs, though fiber is one of the things virtually no one is getting enough of unless your eating like 5 cups of lentils everyday.
eating more meat than veggies and fibers has been shown to increase chances of colon cancer.
I don’t disagree, but veggies and fibers aren’t macronutrients in our current system of nutrition. Fats, carbs, proteins. Of those three, it’s wiser to prioritize proteins over the rest. This is all I’m saying.
Could you cite the study, please?
That is true, the sugar (and corn,) industry at a minimum has run influence operations demonizing fat for the harms of sugar.
The body actually does not feel full until it gets enough fat, the stomach tastes the contents, if you have no fat you take in way more calories. Also, sugar is half fructose and half glucose. Glucose is good, used as is, that is what they put in hospital IV drips. Fructose gets metabolized in your liver into fat, then used, but the body does not recognize it as a food. It does not contribute to a full feeling.
Every time these dumb motherfuckers get thirsty they swill down pop, with the equivalent of 16 teaspoons of sugar in a 16 ounce. It is a major, if not the largest, factor in obesity.
Fructose could not even be utilized in human ancestors in the monkey days, it was not until a cold wind blew over africa for centuries that our monkey ancestors got the ability to turn that fructose into fat, to use for the periods when we did not have fresh fruit on hand every day all day. According to a national geographic article titled Sugar, now not findable on enshitified search engines because fuck you, (and me, the consumer not a personal dig.)
Are you sure about that last bit with the monkeys? Most fruits contain fructose, it’d be weird if money body just discarded a perfectly good source of backup energy.
Also your liver can metabolise fructose straight into glucose too if needed. Obviously not as fast as eating glucose, but if you were a monke, it might be pretty useful. In today’s sedentary society it’s of course more harmful, but I don’t think fructose itself is inherently bad. We just live lifestyles and have diets where it has little to no place.