Guidance from health and human services secretary contradicts decades of dietary recommendations
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the health and human services secretary, is planning to issue guidance encouraging Americans to eat more saturated fats, contradicting decades of dietary recommendations and alarming experts.
“My response and sort of counsel to myself was to stay calm, and let’s see what happens, because there was no indication given as to how, why, when this potential shift would occur,” said Cheryl Anderson, an American Heart Association board member and professor at the University of California, San Diego’s school of public health and human longevity science.
“The recommendation around saturated fat has been one of the most consistent recommendations since the first edition of the dietary guidelines.”
While Ronald Krauss, a professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of California, San Francisco who has researched saturated fats extensively, found that saturated fats may be less harmful than previously thought, he believes if “[Kennedy] is actually going to go out and say, we should be eating more saturated fat, I think that’s really the wrong message”.
I went to the doctor for the first time in a decade cause I didn’t have insurance (thanks politicians, you fucking suck).
He told me I had high cholesterol and to keep saturated fat below 10g a day. I never knew the guideline is 20g and under.
It’s actually pretty tough to keep below 10g a day without doing a lot of work. But my cholesterol improved drastically in just a month, and I lost 9 lbs.
I refuse to believe RFK Jr and his conspiracy theories and will use the EVIDENCE from hundreds of years to make my health decisions.