Good news: the new dietary guidelines include vegetarian and vegan diets and suggest reducing protein, cholesterol, and sugar. Bad news: it says vegans eat eggs, ignores protein in vegetables, thinks drinking white liquid is important, obscures its recommendations on eating less bad food, and drops the recommendation for environmentally responsible eating. The final 2015-2020 Dietary […]
dietary guidelines
Dietary Guidelines report brave on less meat, “bizarre” on more dairy, says top nutritionist
Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, provided a shocking end to the webcast Wednesday about the science behind the proposed new U.S. Dietary Guidelines report, calling the origin of a key recommendation “bizarre” and highlighting its negative consequences for health and the environment. His comments are so important and well-phrased that I went back to the webcast […]
