Nutrition Experts Call For Fewer Restrictions On Fat, More On Sugar

Recently, healthcare providers and health researchers have suggested a few big changes to the eating guidelines they give to Americans. For decades, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans have suggested limiting foods with a lot of cholesterol, including: Egg yolks, Red meat, Butter, lard, and tallow (beef fat), Shellfish, like shrimp and lobster, Cheese, cream, and whole milk. But now, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, which meets once every five years, believe it’s better to cut back on sugar than to avoid cholesterol-rich foods.

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Diet Soda Linked To Obesity In Older Adults

If you have any symptoms of metabolic syndrome, which include obesity, type 2 diabetes, high blood glucose levels, high blood pressure, and high triglycerides, your healthcare provider may have suggested that you cut down on sugar. But if you switched to diet soda to achieve this, you might be putting your health at risk. According to researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, older adults who drink diet sodas were more likely to have large waistlines (known as abdominal obesity). The researchers looked at about 750 people over the age of 65 who were involved in the San Antonio Longitudinal Study of Aging (SALSA). The subjects were tested for waist size, height, weight, and how much diet soda they had every day. The results of the study showed that the subjects who had at least one diet soda each day had a higher average BMI than those who drank none. Compared to the subjects who drank no diet soda, those who had at least one each day also tended to have a bigger waist over time. At the final follow-up, these people increased their waist size by about 3.2 inches. Those who had no diet [...]

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