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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am so frustrated with everything he is doing to damage public health. I thought it would be appropriate to make a thread to discuss this. He has made it more difficult to access certain vaccines and I am legitimately worried that he will pull my kids vaccines off the market before they are able to get them. According to him butter is apparently a health food now, measles causes autism, and mRNA vaccines cause cancer. There is no area of public health he hasn’t attempted to destroy. This is exactly what happens when you hire a lawyer with no knowledge about medicine or public health to run HHS. [/quote]

Its really weird to have people defend the public health status quo. Everyone's fat, allergic to everything, getting cancer in their 20's and disabled by 40.[/quote]

Pushing back on harmful “solutions” is not the same as defending the status quo.  MAGA needs to get over the idea that questioning their leaders is an attack on freedom, justice, public health, America, etc.

If your house was on fire and some rando showed up with an axe and started chopping away at your car, objecting to that isn’t the same as saying “I want my house to continue to be on fire”.

There are more obvious culprits, like PFAS and Roundup and all the thousands of other food additives and unregulated, untested chemicals being dumped into the environment.  Fast food and social media engineered to be addictive.  Structural issues in low income communities, like food deserts, unstable housing, and lack of walkability, that contribute to poor diet. And so on.

Instead, RFK is ideologically driven and pushing junk science and food pyramids dictated by lobbyists instead of nutrition experts.  We deserve better.
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Oh yes, the old science derived food pyramid was great wasn’t it? Fattened people up like cattle with all those grains. Make Diabetus Great Again![/quote]

You are as idiotic as the current administration. The food pyramid has not existed or been used in guidelines fteen years. The meat and dairy administration helped sponsor the current guidelines. Make cardiologists more rich while they are at it! [/quote]

*In fifteen years. What is hilarious is that the very administration who issued the new guidelines did not realize the food pyramid stopped being used fifteen years ago either. They kept talking about it. Effing idiots and the sheep eat it up. [/quote]

Any dietary guidelines regardless of whether pyramid or plate shaped that don’t include legumes are dangerously ignorant and cannot be trusted.

There are no legumes on the new pyramid - they’re pushing protein (there is no protein deficiency in America, btw - but there is fiber deficiency that is very widespread, only 6% of Americans consume the RDA of fiber) but they don’t even mention the healthiest source of protein on the planet, and for the planet.[/quote]

As someone who is learning how to eat properly for the first time in 50 years, I agree with you.  I have bulked up protein and yes I know it is a fad at the moment.  But I had never eaten enough of it to regulate blood sugar appropriately.  So I craved sweets.  Once I got more balanced, my cravings went away, I chose healthier foods, and lost weight.

Cue the fiber, though.  I went without enough fiber when I prioritized protein.  And the results were what you'd expect. Switched that up. Beans have been my savior.

I give my anecdote because some of us really do need to be thoughtful about adding more protein. It may not be a deficiency, but when it's not consumed appropriately, it can lead to other nutritional issues.  In my case, wildly varying blood sugar levels, cravings, binging, being overweight.

But as we Americans tend to do, we go overboard.  As did I.  And I learned the hard way.

I hope everyone's insurance covers registered dietitians.  They have been a godsend to me.  If this administration cared about our health, they'd be maximizing health care coverage for all of us.

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