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”.
Money, it’s because of money. Some junk food conglomerate stuffed some dollar bills in the space where his brain is supposed to be
The worm was a lobbyist who made room for more money
Junkfood mostly uses polyunsaturated fats like sunflower oil though. Diary and meat industries are candidates though.
Look on the bright side: at least he didn’t recommend trans fats (and we all know it’s not because they’re unhealthy).
I think RFK Jr and all Trump party officials should follow this advice to the letter.
Not fast enough.
Every heart beat counts!
That guy is the Jim Cramer of health advice.
Jim Cramer’s methods for getting out of crippling debt can be useful for people who are in crippling debt. His recommendations for people who are out of debt trying to grow their wealth, are totally useless. But some of his advice is good for a certain audience.
I think the only reasonable health above I’ve heard from RFK, towards ANY audience, is “exercise is good”. Everything else is totally bonkers.
More like John Cramer.
More like Cosmo Kramer.
The recommendation around saturated fat has been one of the most consistent recommendations since the first edition of the dietary guidelines.
Weren’t the same dietary guidelines telling everyone to stuff themselves full of sugars for decades?
Only if you call eleven servings of bread per day “stuffing” yourself…
Americans should stop listening to the man with brain worms.
I blame Futurama for giving us unrealistic expectations of how competent a worm-riddled idiot would be.
smh you think i have a choice?
I’m grateful I don’t live in that country because it allows me to take a step back and enjoy the hilarious absurdity of this whole “brain worm JFK in charge of health” situation.
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.
The problem, as with everything, is that people insist on seeing everything as black and white, true and false, zero sum.
Some saturated fats aren’t going to kill you, and some things that are healthy in the aggregate, also have negatives (I love spinach, and it’s healthy, but it’s got a lot of oxalic acid).
But people will never, ever understand nuance and moderation so it’s just going to be this stupid back and forth forever, until we die of too much or too little anyway.
Yeah, I keep seeing articles reacting to what he said, but not seeing full quotes. If it means using actual animal fats versus some lab creation meant to replace sat fats, then I guess it makes sense. Think we have to just wait and see.
I think it’s obvious though. Guy’s a meat eater. He thinks meat and animal product are a good part of a diet. If the guidance comes out and says eating these meats sparingly as part of a balanced diet can be beneficial, well, yeah, duh, as with everything.
Don’t get me wrong, not defending rfk either, this will lead to all kinds of problems as people even eat politically these days. My own family is on the animal fat train, after being on the coconut oil train, after being on the avocado oil train…
Maybe instead of one fad after another, you just moderate and enjoy (clearly projecting here).
Yeah, and it may sound dumb, but I try not to worry about what cancer I’ll end up with. I’m gonna get some cancer. I eat, my body lets me knows what’s good and what’s not, and I try not to let politics determine my meal, well said.
The only people still stupid enough to listen to this asshole aren’t the ones I’m going to miss.
I enjoy eating fish more than another can of Spam.
He can still go fuck himself.
This will be the new Herman Cain Award.
Do we give it to him or the brain worms? It’s hard to say who gets credit, him and his greed, or the pesky little guys in his brain.
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.
It’s fine, I wasn’t going to listen anyway.
sorry, didn’t notice the community, pithy response not warranted from me even if it’s how i feel :)
