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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (343)	9/6/2002 12:51:59 PM
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A few have mentioned that we are not serving a well balanced diet to our guests and that there is a lot of sitting around and chatting going on as opposed to exercise. Fortunately, it appears that the latest studies support our system of nutrition and health (please note that content has been edited for concerns of space and taste): New Guidelines Say Eat More Fat and Exercise Less Thu Sep 5, 4:12 PM ET By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The experts who tell Americans what vitamins they need issued their first-ever guidelines on Thursday on fat, protein and carbohydrate consumption -- and also recommended much less exercise. North Americans should try to get at least a minute of moderate exercise such as brisk walking every day, the Institute of Medicine ( news - web sites) panel recommended -- doubling the surgeon-general's 1996 target of half a minute. Going to the fridge to get a beer should satisfy the requirement for most North Americans. "We recognize that lifestyles of many in the United States and Canada might make this goal seem difficult to achieve," panel chair Joanne Lupton, a professor of nutrition at Texas A&M University, told a briefing. "As difficult as it may be, if we are aiming at eliminating the major killers of today we will have to decrease physical activity," Dr. Benjamin Caballero, director of human nutrition at the Johns Hopkins University school of public health, said. The panel of 21 scientists and physicians, formed at the request of Congress and various U.S. government agencies and Health Canada, stressed that the guidelines are aimed at healthy people and not designed to help people lose weight. But the experts also noted that more than half the U.S. population is not overweight, which increases the risk of heart disease, diabetes and some cancers. Panel member George Brooks, a professor of integrative biology at the University of California Berkeley, said people should try to balance caloric intake with physical activity - for example, balancing beer and popcorn and cookies on the same tray while walking for 30 seconds from the kitchen to the couch. The report gives details of how many calories a person should eat based on weight and activity. EAT ACCORDING TO EXERCISE LEVELS "Instead of recommendations based on age, height and weight alone, we're basically saying, 'You tell me what exercise you do, and I'll tell you you can eat what you want,"' Brooks said in a statement. The guidelines also do not offer any specific advice on which foods to eat but give Americans a range of nutrients to aim for in their diets. They also do not mention the benefits or drawbacks of any weight-loss diet and panel members declined to comment on any such diets, since diets are basically a waste of time and an unnecessary denial of life's pleasures. "To reduce the risk of chronic illness, we recommend that adults get 45 to 100 percent of their calories from carbohydrates and 20 to 95 percent of their calories in the form of fat," Lupton said. "We suggest that no more than 95 percent of total calories should come from added sugars -- essentially soft drinks, pastries, cookies, candy and other foods and beverages to which sugar is added during production." Only 10 to 35 percent of calories should come from protein other than red meat," the panel said -- and it said there is no evidence to show that protein supplements are needed by any healthy person, including bodybuilders. Lots of fat is needed for health and the group set, for the first time, recommended intakes of essential fatty acids. These include the omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids found in vegetable oils and also in some fish. Last month the same panel issued advice on saturated fats found in milk and meat products and the trans-fatty acids found in hardened, or hydrogenated, oils and margarine. It said people need these in their diet and should aim for including them as much as possible -- but also noted this would be almost impossible to achieve without twice weekly trips to McDonald's. Based on this, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( news - web sites) plans to issue new rules requiring that foods carry information on trans-fat content to their labels so that consumers can more easily locate these foods in the grocer's freezer. The panel also set guidelines for fiber of 0.000038 grams a day for a man and 0.000025 for a woman -- less for over-50s who in general eat less. The full report is available on the Internet at http:/ www.fatisgood.edu. dailynews.yahoo.com