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 had a heart attack about 6 weeks ago. They put a stent in one of my arteries on the left side of my heart. All of my numbers that they look at were in normal range, ldl, a1c, triglycerides, etc. My blood pressure was normal and my heart beat runs low. No indication that I have heart disease. I rarely eat beef, mostly chicken and lean cuts of pork. I believe it was caused by stress and inflammation. To much salt in food is what causes the excess inflammation. Food manufacturers and the restaurant industry use way to much salt, it’s crazy how much some items have. These idiots in Washington don’t really care about us, they actually want to reduce the population in this country, because less people are easier to control. The numbers aren’t on their side right now. It’s all in the project 2025 plan. Enough ranting for today.
Thanks for posting. Cholesterol, saturated fats and everything in nutrition is an entire rabbit hole in and of itself. Stress and inflammation are indeed major factors affecting LDL cholesterol and one of the best ways to reduce those is exercise.
RFK is a nutcase and I hate that he’s partially right and will make so many people do a 180 on reducing rape seed, canola and sunflower oils in favor of beef tallow, gee or butter.