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Date:   12/13/2014 6:33:43 AM ( 10 y ago)

Healthy Nation Coalition Details Persistent Failures of Dietary Guidelines for Americans

Posted at http://www.westonaprice.org on December 12, 2014 by Kimberly Hartke

Washington, D.C.–December 12, 2014–[GlobeNewswire]

"In an open letter to government officials, the Healthy Nation Coalition describes the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) as a failed policy. The letter from concerned scientists, nutrition professionals and consumers is addressed to the Secretaries of the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services. The letter asserts that these recommendations contribute to worsening health outcomes for the nation and should be replaced with guidance focused on essential nutrition (see full text and downloadable pdf at
http://forahealthynation.org/healthy-nation-coalition-letter/)

On December 15th the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, which reviews the DGA, finishes deliberations.[1] The committee is expected to issue guidelines perpetuating 35 years of advising consumers to reduce their intake of eggs, meat and full-fat dairy. While the consumption of these foods has decreased in past decades, rates of obesity have doubled and rates of diabetes have tripled.

Critics maintain the DGA, which directs all federal nutrition activities, are not sufficiently grounded in science, not compatible with adequate essential nutrition, and do not respect the diversity of food traditions in America. The narrow focus on plant-based nutrition ignores unique dietary needs of growing children, older adults, athletes, and ethnic minorities. Furthermore, this focus has prevented federally-funded research into dietary approaches not in line with the DGA, including the use of low-carbohydrate diets to treat diabetes.

More than 70 clinicians and academics have joined farmers and ranchers as part of the 600 signatories to the letter. These include several notable voices on nutrition: Robert Lustig, MD, of the University of California; Paul Jaminet, PhD, author of The Perfect Health Diet; Mark Sisson, blogger and author of numerous books on fitness and health; Richard Feinman, PhD of SUNY Downstate Medical Center; Sean Lucan, MD, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and co-author of textbooks on nutrition and public health; and Sally Fallon Morell, founder of the nutrition education nonprofit, The Weston A. Price Foundation.

Spokesperson for the coalition is Adele Hite, a registered dietitian, PhD student at North Carolina State University, and former health educator at Duke Lifestyle Medicine Clinic. 'Our way forward doesn’t have to emphasize dietary extremes,' she explains. 'We propose recommendations that provide clear, concise, food-based guidance that helps Americans meet essential nutrition needs according to their own food traditions. We cannot justify guidelines that restrict nutritious whole foods like meat, eggs and butter, discriminate against farmers who produce them, and confound efforts of Americans who recognize their health benefits.'

The Healthy Nation Coalition was originally formed in 2011, shortly after the 2010 dietary guidelines were issued. Congress requires that the guidelines be updated every 5 years. For more details or to join the Coalition, visit their website, forahealthynation.org."

Media Contact:
Kimberly Hartke, publicist
703-860-2711, Kimberly@hartkepr.com

http://www.westonaprice.org/press/healthy-nation-coalition-details-persistent-failures-of-dietary-guidelines-for-americans/


Thank you Kimberly,

I've just sent an inquiry to the coalition and introduced myself especially in regards to how local chapters are positively impacting communities and that WAPF members can positively impact dieticians and the like who implement Federal food programs in the communities as well.

I'm looking forward to hearing back from the coalition as to how I may support the shared outcomes I think we all would like to see; namely a healthier American people.

(Tuesday the 16th WAPF informed me that this comment did not actually register. I've submitted another one - copied below.)
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[1] "The Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) is the focal agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture created on December 1, 1994, to improve the health and well-being of Americans by establishing national dietary guidelines based on the best science available. ... The Center serves as the administrative agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the issuance of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which are the cornerstone of Federal nutrition policy and nutrition education activities. The Guidelines are jointly issued and updated every 5 years by USDA and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (specifically, the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Nutrition_Policy_and_Promotion#Dietary_Guidelines_for_Americans

Just verified that:
"The Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) was created within the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1994."
http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/about-cnpp

I've already done my research on "the U.S. Department of Agriculture" and have hard-copy documented that it originated by an Act of Congress. The most enlightening part of this is that Acts of Congress lawfully pertain only to what Congress owns! It is a matter of proprietary jurisdiction (a fact in Law that has been researched and reported in several of my CureZone blogs). Therefore an agency that is created within the U.S. Department of Agriculture and regarding its "development of the legislatively mandated DGA ..." can only apply to food programs on what the government owns. Everyone one else volunteers into the federal food policy at his or her own risk. (Actually virtually everyone in the program has essentially volunteered into it.)

Here's where proprietary jurisdiction can get "nasty". (I don't know if there is a better adjective.) The Congress can make whatever legislations they want to for their property. Anyone who doesn't like the truly lawful basis of government's power "To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District ... and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased ..." has a choice as to continuing with that as it is or they can do their best not to have dealings on the "Places purchased" where that particular legislation is in effect. The idea of changing the policy is (IMO) much more difficult and uncertain as to whether government will limit the lawful legislative authority that they possess. How about a conversation on how to leave the "zone" and/or stop volunteering into the jurisdiction?

The core problem in this issue is not so much "government" as it is all the NGOs, the press, the media, the educational systems, etc. that say next to nothing about the Organic Law and especially the "proprietary jurisdiction" that comes with it! However that "full disclosure" is beyond these sequestered entities now for a number of reasons with one being that the belief in the seemingly ever-expanding presence of government is largely systemic throughout the collective psyche! Yet they are "only" beliefs and knowing the truth of the Organic Law can dispel those beliefs in a relatively short period of time!

“…National nutritional policy impacts the foods available to those whose food choices are circumscribed by government guidelines: children in the National School Lunch Program; mothers and families in the Women Infants and Children program; and pre-school children and older adults in the Child and Adult Care Food Program.”
http://forahealthynation.org/who-we-are/values/

The "Dietary Guidelines for Americans" does not have legal or other standing for all Americans and yet the apparent plight of health issues suffered by most Americans is now being attributed to these "guidelines". Yet Americans have suffered "physical degeneration" from poor nutrtion many decades before the CNPP was created! It is a perfect example of how government is supported by the press, the media, the educational institutions, etc. etc. in perpetuating an overextended image of itself as the official "chief guardian" of well being for the American people. Could that idea possibly be insane? If you don't think so then consider the impact on the health of this nation from allowing government to be the big daddy/mama.


Tuesday the 16th -
Just submitted the following commnt at the Weston A. Price foundation's website (6:42 PM)

Thank you Kimberly and all!

I've devoted a whole entire blog top this issue.
"The Rise & Fall of the Standard Amercian Diet":
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=2224761

There is a potential mighty force of real goodness within every local chapter of this foundation that can most directly pertain to these "Persistent Failures" and that I wish to inspire and encourage now. My emphasis on our "grass roots forces" are not intended to deny the need to better inform Congress and its agencies however the need to be more fully informed is truly greater on the side of the people now. We are the ones who have the last word as to whether or not legislation applies to us and in order to speak the truth about that requires that we each personally do our own "due diligence" so that we can firstly more fully inform ourselves as to the proprietary basis for government's jurisdiction! This opens a relatively new dimension in our relationship to government and one that government does not, will not and can not encourage. It is really up to us my friends. We actually can not rely on attorneys to do our "due diligence" for us!

8:15 PM PST -

Just beginning to read the latest from the leading Human Design Analyst in Australia:
http://www.loveyourdesign.com/fresh-take-life-death-apocalypse/
and I'm finding this exceptionally noteworthy as it is the transiting backdrop for the current opportunity that I'm pointing to here for transforming our relationship with government.


 

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