Report: New Dietary Guidelines Needed. Show Reduced Fat/Reduced Sodium For Daily Intake.

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OK, this is moronic for a couple of different reasons.

First off, if obese people followed the current guidelines, then they wouldn't be obese.

Second, if obese people would get up off their butts instead of sitting around watching TV, playing video games, etc. and got active again, obesity would be no where near the problem it is today.

You're not going to change kids unless entire attitudes change. You can make all the recommendations you want, but those recommendations are useless unless people are willnig to get out and excercie and parents are willnig to kick their kids out of the house for a few hours.

Stop letting the damn computer be the babysitter and send your kids to the playground for a couple of hours a day!!

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http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/15/report-reduce-salt-fat-in-u-s-dietary-guidelines/?hpt=Sbin

An advisory committee on U.S. dietary guidelines is urging the government to decrease the recommended daily amount of saturated fat in American's diets from 10 percent to 7 percent of total calories consumed. The panel's report also recommends that Americans decrease the amount of daily sodium in their diets from 2,300 milligrams to less than 1,500 milligrams and calls for drinking fewer sugar-sweetened beverages.

"It's sort of a gradual approach to decrease the caloric intake of the American public," says Penelope Slade-Sawyer, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion at the Department of Health and Human Services.

The government advisory panel of 13 experts in nutrition and health met six times over a 20-month period to develop its recommendations. The Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services are reviewing the report.

"This report is a crucial step in the development of the dietary guidelines for Americans," says Robert Post, Deputy Director of the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion at the Department of Agriculture.

The government is expected to issue new dietary guidelines later this year.

Slade-Sawyer notes childhood obesity has tripled in the past 30 years, and today's report, she says, is unprecedented in addressing the obesity epidemic.

"The committee stated that the obesity epidemic is the single greatest threat to public health in this century. Every section of this report was developed in a way that addresses the challenges of obesity," she says.

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I agree that lack of exercise is a problem that contributes to obesity, but diet is far and away the largest factor.

Currently the food guides are indicating to get most of your daily food intake from breads and grains, its what we've been taught for decades. A majority of breads and similar product in markets are of the processed, simple carbohydrate variety, they get broken down into sugars super quickly, eating one slice of white bread these days is about the same as sucking back 1/4 cup of sugar.

Obesity can be combatted by laying off the prepackaged foods as much, and cooking your own meals out of fresh ingredients, just overall dropping the sodium, and dropping simple carbs and sugar in your diet then keeping proper portions should allow you to maintain or lose weight with no more exercise than breathing.