Proper nutrition, guidelines change in the USA
Now, those of you who are reading this news are facing a historical moment, which will also have repercussions on the Mediterranean diet, on the daily dietary recommendations, on the guidelines of the World Health Organization , most likely. Do you remember the story that fats affect our cholesterol?
With the consequence that my mother is afraid of eggs, for example, and she eats them once a week? How many of you reduce fat to the bone, drink skim milk, grease ham and meat? How many of you are now devoted to chicken breast?
Well, something has changed. Something big. The United States government has changed the government guidelines for proper nutrition.
And after the increasingly colossal results of some research that overturned the old studies between food and cholesterol, judging the role of fats in the diet with hypercholesterolemia not relevant and causal, even the guidelines have changed. The daily ceiling on cholesterol intake through food has disappeared.
It is therefore not necessary to limit the fats in the diet or even to avoid them. Yes to fats. Yes to foods with cholesterol. You can also eat eggs every day.
But no to sugars. Limit your consumption of refined sugars, refined carbohydrates, fruit juices and puffed cereals.
You will think: okay, but we are Italians, what do we care? This is not quite the case: Italy, like other European countries, is also influenced by American decisions on nutrition. Soon even our dieticians, perhaps with monstrous delay compared to their American colleagues as usual (in America we have been talking about intestinal diet and good enzymes for years. We started talking about it for one, two years at the most), will start talking about fat in the diet.
And then, let’s face reality: how much can we Italians say to have a Mediterranean diet?And how much is our diet influenced by what we find in the supermarket? How many of us fail with the Mediterranean diet by eating white pasta, white rice, double zero flour, Manitoba flour (bad for our intestines), sweet corn, refined rice products, fruit juices, muffins and snacks, spreads, ready meals, paatine and snacks?
There. Soon those guidelines will also be our guidelines.
And they tell us to cut out excess sugars and refined carbohydrates and NOT be afraid of dietary fat.
How? Yes to whole grains and products from whole grains, fruits and vegetables, non-skim dairy products and cheeses, fish, legumes and seeds, eggs, good oils and nuts.
Refined carbohydrates end up on the blacklist along with meats.
And after the increasingly colossal results of some research that overturned the old studies between food and cholesterol, judging the role of fats in the diet with hypercholesterolemia not relevant and causal, even the guidelines have changed. The daily ceiling on cholesterol intake through food has disappeared.
It is therefore not necessary to limit the fats in the diet or even to avoid them. Yes to fats. Yes to foods with cholesterol. You can also eat eggs every day.
But no to sugars. Limit your consumption of refined sugars, refined carbohydrates, fruit juices and puffed cereals.
You will think: okay, but we are Italians, what do we care? This is not quite the case: Italy, like other European countries, is also influenced by American decisions on nutrition. Soon even our dieticians, perhaps with monstrous delay compared to their American colleagues as usual (in America we have been talking about intestinal diet and good enzymes for years. We started talking about it for one, two years at the most), will start talking about fat in the diet.
And then, let’s face reality: how much can we Italians say to have a Mediterranean diet?And how much is our diet influenced by what we find in the supermarket? How many of us fail with the Mediterranean diet by eating white pasta, white rice, double zero flour, Manitoba flour (bad for our intestines), sweet corn, refined rice products, fruit juices, muffins and snacks, spreads, ready meals, paatine and snacks?
There. Soon those guidelines will also be our guidelines.
And they tell us to cut out excess sugars and refined carbohydrates and NOT be afraid of dietary fat.
How? Yes to whole grains and products from whole grains, fruits and vegetables, non-skim dairy products and cheeses, fish, legumes and seeds, eggs, good oils and nuts.
Refined carbohydrates end up on the blacklist along with meats.
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