About every five years, the government issues recommendations about what we should eat, based on the latest research. Last month, a group of 14 food, nutrition and medical experts on the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee sent a report to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Agriculture Department, with advice that may find its way into the final guidelines that the Government will issue later this year.
Whatever those guidelines end up being, it seems likely that a lot of us will pay them little heed. Almost half of Americans, about 117 million of us, have preventable chronic diseases . And even more of us, about 155 million American adults are overweight or obese. We talk about what the Advisory Committee found and some of the reactions to their report with our very own resident expert, the Nutrition Diva, Monica Reinagel. She’s a licensed nutritionist who blogs at Nutrition Over Easy, and whose weekly podcasts appear on Quickanddirtytips.com.
