People should start following a heart healthy diet at age 1 – prioritizing protein from plant-based sources
There are nine steps heart experts say you should follow to stave off life-threatening disease – and several contradict Health Sec. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s new “MAHA” dietary guidance.
While the Trump administration’s January guidelines promote eating animal meat and full-fat dairy products, new guidance released by the American Heart Association calls for more plant-based protein sources.
And despite Kennedy’s pledge to end what he claimed was a “war” on protein and saturated fats, the AHA says people should still choose low-fat or fat-free dairy products and replaced saturated fats with sources of unsaturated fats, such as nuts, avocados and seeds.
The new guidance is aimed at lowering Americans’ risk of cardiovascular disease and other chronic health conditions, the AHA, which is supported by 30,000 scientific, medical and healthcare professionals, said.
No one dumb enough to listen to RFK is going to listen to people who know what they’re talking about.
They don’t listen to RFK because they think he knows anything, he’s just telling them to do what they want.
They don’t even really think it’s healthy, some people just legitimately hate thinking and just want someone else to tell them what to do.
They’ll stuff hamburgers and milkshakes down their throats knowing it’s unhealthy with a smile on their face because Daddy said it was ok.
Quite similar to AI in many ways. It’s almost humorous that this sort of person will offload their own thoughts yet regularly complain about being told what to do. Or at least it might be if the ramifications weren’t so broad.
If we make it out of this era it’ll make for quite the textbook on how to wreck a society.
… it’ll make for quite the textbook on how to wreck a society.
Which means it will happen again.
This administration are terrorists on our health. Must remain vigilant.
The fat free dairy products may be better for my heart but they aren’t good for my soul :(
I also pretty much only consume them on weekend mornings though.
Everyone is different. Some folks do very well on a grain based diet. Others, like myself and my wife, not so much. If you get fat eating a grain based diet you need to switch to a low carb, high fiber, full fat type of diet. We did, and our health improved significantly. My wife’s 40% blockage is now 20%. I no longer even need meds to control my blood pressure. The book about what we don’t know about health is still much larger than the book of what we do know about health.
Both Kennedy and the AHA can get bent. They’re out here promoting the fallacious concept that some mythical universal diet exists that will be healthy for everyone.
Different people have different dietary needs, and even thesame person will have different dietary needs and tolerances throughout their lifetime. I appreciate that AHA is theoretically trying to “follow the science,” but dietary studies are practically pseudoscience, what with their correlation studies, imbalanced populations, results averaging, and industry sponsorships (remember the food pyramid?). Meanwhile Kennedy’s dietary advice is an obvious knee-jeek reaction to this (e.g. AHA’s long-time insistence that “eggs (esp. yolks) are unhealthy”), but it’s reactionary, too much a case of “well if established dietary science says A is bad, A must be excellent!” with a heaping dose of toxic masculinity (steak and bacon and other manly foods are good, whereas weak, feminine foods are bad).
Frankly the AHA and their ilk make areas of health science where the research is valid, like vaccines, look bad by association, which is only going to promote more anti-science opinions and Kennedy types. Because whenever someone says “I was following dietary ‘science’ for years, but after I cut down on ‘good’ foods like brown rice* and started eating ‘bad’ foods like eggs and red meat*, I had more energy and fewer digestive issues, plus it tastes so much better than that ‘healthy’ crap,” their obvious conclusion will be, “what else is ‘science’ lying to me about?” Next thing you know, they’re out here insisting windmills give you cancer.
*Used for example purposes only; plenty of people digest brown rice just fine and would suffer on a high-animal protein diet, which is exactly the point I’m trying to make about humans and futile attempts at finding a universal diet.