Turning the U.S.-European Country Food Pyramid Upside Down

For the U.S. European country topic, which current government dietary and nutrition policies should be reformed to enable improved metabolic health and reduced medical costs in the U.S. and across Europe?

U.S./Europe Nutrition and Dietary Guidelines Reforms (EconomicThinking, March 3, 2023)

Speakers on day two of Low Carb Denver included:

• Bret Scher of Metabolic Mind and Baszucki Group (Education Center and videos)

• Nina Teicholz, Nutrition Coalition, author of The Big Fat Surprise, US Dietary Guidelines are Out of Step with the Science. See also: debate with John Mackey of Whole Foods Market (2015), Diet Doctor podcast (October, 2022), presentation at Cato Institute (2019)

• Nadir Ali, Is a High Fat Diet Harmful in individuals with Coronary Artery Disease and Heart Attacks? What is Lipo-toxicity? Here is Low Carb Denver 2020 talk: ‘Do statins prevent or cause heart disease? Should LDL be called “bad” Cholesterol?’ and The Untold Story of Plant Cholesterol | Dr. Nadir Ali

[Information on other Saturday presentations at schedule page.]

• Mariela Glandt, Treating Diabetes Requires a Whole New Paradigm. Low carb for diabetes, Diet Doctor Podcast (2021), YouTube page, Mariela Glandt Speaks in the Women in Agrifood Summit (2022): Women in Agrifood Summit is a sum up of the activities performed within the frames of Empowering Women in Agrifood (EWA) programme carried out by EIT Food in 2022 in Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Malta, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Spain and Turkey.

Mariela Glandt’s presentation for the listed European countries is, in overheads, titled Own Your Health: Turning the Food Pyramid Upside Down.

Though it’s late in the season, debaters can consider reforming nutrition policy as an affirmative case for the U.S./European country topic. Public health among Americans and Europeans had declined significantly, and chronic disease increased, due to nutritional misdirection and fear of saturated fat generated by decades of public health policies. Many supporting posts at Normal Nutrition. And overview in my Goodman Institute paper, Did the Government Make Us Fat? (pdf) (video overview here).