{"id":2240,"date":"2010-06-16T15:01:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T19:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2010-06-16T15:01:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T19:01:43","slug":"your-turn-to-boil-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/06\/16\/your-turn-to-boil-it-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Your turn to boil it down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government released a draft of its 2010 dietary guidelines yesterday.\u00a0 Warning that obesity is &#8220;the single greatest threat to public health in this century&#8221;, an expert panel laid out these basic recommendations, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/health\/weightloss\/2010-06-15-dietaryguidelines16_ST_N.htm?POE=click-refer\">as summarized by USA Today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2022<strong>Reduce excess weight and obesity<\/strong> by  cutting calorie intake and increasing physical activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<strong>Shift to a more plant-based diet <\/strong>that  emphasizes vegetables, cooked dry beans and peas, fruits, whole grains,  nuts and seeds. Increase the intake of seafood and fat-free and low-fat  milk and milk products, and eat only moderate amounts of lean meats,  poultry and eggs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<strong>Significantly reduce intake of foods<\/strong> containing added sugars and solid fats, which contribute about 35% of  the calories in the American diet. Cut sodium intake gradually to 1,500  milligrams a day and lower intake of refined grains, especially those  with added sugar, solid fat and sodium.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<strong>Meet the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines  for Americans.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds familiar?\u00a0 It&#8217;s pretty much what dietary experts have been saying since 1980, and obesity&#8217;s gone through the roof.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/food\/archive\/2010\/06\/why-its-hard-to-change-dietary-guidelines\/58195\/\">Marion Nestle opined on The Atlantic&#8217;s food page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The main difference seems to be the way the evidence was judged and in  some of the details: the target for saturated fat is 7 percent and for  sodium a gradual reduction to 1500 milligrams per day.<\/p>\n<p>If so, that&#8217;s a lot of trouble to go through to get to basically the  same place. I summarized that place in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Eat-Marion-Nestle\/dp\/0865477043?tag=sagerss-20\">What  to Eat<\/a> <\/em>as &#8220;Eat less, move more, eat plenty of fruits and  vegetables, and don&#8217;t eat too much junk food.&#8221; Michael Pollen did it  even more succinctly: &#8220;Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like Nestle and Pollen&#8217;s boiling down of the guidelines into simple mantras.\u00a0 I actually think about Pollen&#8217;s words occasionally when I shop at the supermarket or sort out the week&#8217;s meals at our house.<\/p>\n<p>So can you do better?<\/p>\n<p>How would you boil down healthy living and eating to a short reminder?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government released a draft of its 2010 dietary guidelines yesterday.\u00a0 Warning that obesity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}