CATO article: Why Does the Federal Government Issue Damaging Dietary Guidelines?

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Asymmetrical Science

Although by 1955, within two years of originally proposing it, Keys had abandoned the dietary cholesterol hypothesis, for another 60 years the federal government continued to warn against consuming cholesterol-rich foods. It was only in 2015 that its Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee classified high-cholesterol foods such as eggs, shrimp, and lobster as safe to eat: “cholesterol is not a nutrient of concern for overconsumption.”18

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Ancel Keys (along with his terrible "data") is probably the single largest contributor to heart disease, diabetes, and countless other illnesses and diseases facing the US today.

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Department of Agriculture

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There's your answer. The agriculture industry controls this.

Dietary guidelines are ridiculously out of date. They're founded in the best science 1965 has to offer.

There are far more current studies dealing with fat intake, types of fats, protein intake and its effect on renal panels in healthy people, and very little of that is reflected in the guidelines.

Free your mind.

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The same reason most doctors over 60 have NO actual idea about how nutrition really works, they were lied to. At the end of the day all of the information a person needs is just fingertips away.

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I was just saying this exact thing to my wife with respect to some of her family members who are killing themselves with lifestyle and going to doctors to fix symptoms.

Eta: it has really started to occur to me that if doctors were better trained in not only proper nutrition, but the true importance of it (and activity) for health, then they might get more serious about these things with their patients and their patients MIGHT start taking this shite more seriously.

But as it stands it's still (and this isn't universal of course) often just a wink-wink, haha you'd better cut back on that cake, you. I like what Virta Health is doing with diabetes treatment. We need more of that sort of thing.

I'm also not against doctors--in certain situations-- saying something like, "If you keep eating, drinking, smoking, chewing that, it WILL kill you. It may be slow and painful, and you may not be lucid enough to know it's happening, but it will happen. And if you are aware of it you'll probably be in a wheelchair soaking in the misery and no drug is going to stop it."

Wow that was harsh. But true.

Eta2: also, mere scare tactics won't work and can be counterproductive (like the stupid anti-meth ads). But coupling the gravity of the nutritional situation with a clear and doable path toward health I believe can change the symptom-only model to one of whole health treatment.

Off soapbox.

Cherry-picking 101