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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: skinowski who wrote (18528)	7/27/2010 7:45:41 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 42652

Do they push the pyramid? I think so, although I have not checked it out personally of late. They push either the pyramid, directly, or its non-visual counterpart, the "balanced diet." They also offer the "eat less, exercise more" approach to weight loss--"calories in, calories out." Michele Obama has named her new program, "Let's Move," which suggests calories in, calories out. I followed for years the CME programs until a month or so ago when I had to get off their email list lest another of their offerings provoke me to throw my computer across the room. They're still pushing the same old stuff at doctors. The American Heart Association is still supporting the Heart-Check Mark on grocery products that are certified low in saturated fat and cholesterol. Their web page was last updated this month. Dietary cholesterol has long since been acquitted as a heart health risk. Even establishment nutritionists mostly recognize that. You know, you can get a Heart-Check award for pancakes. The Smart Choice labeling criteria allows up to 25% of calories from added sugar. 100% juice, which gets virtually all of its calories from sugar, "automatically" qualifies. Time magazine ran an article this month comparing the nutritional qualities of organic vs regular eggs that assumed the white as the egg's only source of nutrition. Maybe the editors at Time assume that all the sophisticated folks who read their magazine "know" to eat only the whites. The American Society of Bariatric Physicians and the Nutrition and Metabolism Society held a joint conference this year that got some buzz on the internet but I don't know how much it penetrated the nutrition establishment. Probably not much given how the 2010 pyramid continues to develop. The La Vida Low Carb blog maintains a list of doctors across the country knowledgeable about low carb. There are a few dozen on the list.