{"id":970,"date":"2009-06-11T08:53:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T12:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=970"},"modified":"2016-03-01T06:35:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T11:35:39","slug":"updated-food-pyramid-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2009\/updated-food-pyramid-review","title":{"rendered":"Updated Food Pyramid Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Source: Sciam.com (Willett and Stampfer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I originally wrote this editorial\/review<\/a> as a handout for patients back in 2004. I’ve updated and republished it here as a public service.<\/p>\n

One important issue I did not highlight in my article is the inherent conflict of interest<\/strong> on the part of the USDA<\/strong>. How can the agency that promotes various food industries give unbiased<\/strong> nutritional advice?<\/p>\n

Then there is the portion size issue with food labeling…<\/p>\n

“A word of caution about food labels\u2026 \u2018No Trans Fat\u2019 can be a deceptive phrase. Products that contain less than a certain threshold are labeled zero trans fat. The key factor is portion size, which is not standardized and may be unreasonably small when compared with what people actually eat. (When was the last time you counted out twelve potato chips?!) So many popular processed foods have significant amounts of trans fat even though their labels claim they they are trans fat free. You have to read between the lines!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bottom line is to evolve your eating habits to increase\u00a0whole grains<\/strong>, vegetables<\/strong> and healthy oils<\/strong>\u2014while decreasing the amount of processed<\/strong>, fast<\/strong> and “white list<\/strong>” (white bread, pasta, potatoes, etc.) foods. To your health!<\/p>\n

FYI, here’s\u00a0a link to the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I originally wrote this editorial\/review as a handout for patients back in 2004. I’ve updated and republished it here as a public service. One important issue I did not highlight in my article is the inherent conflict of interest on the part of the USDA. How can the agency that promotes various food industries give … Continue reading “Updated Food Pyramid Review”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicine","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5696,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/5696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}