By Abigail Aguilar —
First food chemicals were banned. Now saturated fats are being unbanned?
As part of the Make America Healthy Again initiative, RFK‘s overhaul of managing the nation’s health is issuing new dietary guidelines that give the green light (limited green light) for meat, milk and butter after decades of being demonized.
“The new dietary guidelines are common sense,” says Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of Health and Human Services.
“This is about de-demonizing foods,” says Marc Siegel, author of The Miracles Among Us. “In the ’70s when we started going after saturated fats and saying they were going to kill you, people replaced them with sugar and ultra-processed foods. It’s about a balanced diet… Plenty of vegetables, plenty of fruits, but having some meat is probably good for you.”
Currently, the federal government recommends that only 10% of your daily calories should come from saturated fat, while the American Heart Association lowers that intake to only 6%.
Meanwhile, an analysis of obesity in the United States sees some encouraging trends: South Carolina is slimming down, as is Missouri and Alaska. But central and southern states still show high indices of obesity. People may be dropping sugar and fabricated foods, as well as stepping up their exercise.
“I would see meat increases your risk for heart disease, but that means limiting it. It doesn’t mean it has to be off the table altogether,” Siegel says. “We need to focus on less chemicals and less ultra-processed foods. Less sugar and less salt — that’s what’s most addictive.
“By going after the (food) dyes, they’ve decreased addiction to bad food, which leads to obesity,” he adds. “Obesity leads to visits to my office for high blood pressure, for high cholesterol, for heart disease and for cancer. Part of this movement is a war against obesity, which is a war against childhood illness.”
Source: Fox News.
