After 30 years, FDA overhauls guideline for the claim "healthy" on food packages
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[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic_Tac
[1] https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFR...
serving size: 1 grain.
> So I'm absolutely fucking obsessed with the Fruit Adventure flavor of Tic-Tacs. [...] I've been buying them in bulk, where each container has 200 candies each, and they come in bulk packs of 12 containers. I tend to eat them by the handful while I'm working or gaming, so in a day I can easily slam through 1-2 containers.
> Over the past year, I found that I gained about 40lbs, and nothing about my eating habits had changed as far as I was aware. I told my doctor about it and she was a bit worried, so she had me do a bunch of bloodwork to see if there was a reason why I gained so much weight in a short period of time. Everything came back normal. She referred me to see a weight loss doctor who would also have me see a dietician.
> I had been working with the dietician for a few months now, and we have me keep a food log. I had a virtual visit with her today and during it, I was fiddling around with an empty container to keep my hands busy. She saw it and asked where I got such a large container from, so I told her about it and how I eat 1-2 of those per day. She asked why those weren't on my food tracker and I said it was because they're 0 calories so they wouldn't count.
Reddit OP goes on to discover what you posted. One of the comments in the thread was:
> I just finished a diploma in a medical field, we were warned about people like you OP. I wish I was joking.
https://old.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/1cck4u8/tifu_by_not_t...
This seems like an obvious problem to me. Despite some progress with adding nuts and salmon.
> To meet the updated criteria for the claim, a food product needs to:
> 1. contain a certain amount of food from at least one of the food groups or subgroups (such as fruit, vegetables, grains, fat-free and low-fat dairy and protein foods) recommended by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and
> 2. meet specific limits for added sugars, saturated fat and sodium.
[1] https://www.fda.gov/food/nutrition-food-labeling-and-critica...
Don’t we now know with 100% certainty the sugar lobby in America seriously manipulated the dietary guidelines?
Most American food has High Fructose Corn Syrup instead of Sugar.
Corn = huge "real American" industry
Sugar = not
Pretending they are different things is mostly just marketing at this point.
- a reasonable misunderstanding to have when people speak the way you’re suggesting
Buy and cook raw ingredients as often as you can because the only way packaged foods make a profit is either to lower costs or increase prices, and neither option is to your benefit.
10% fat, 50% protein, 40% carbs.
For some reason people seem obsessed with overcomplicating their diets. You don’t need to subsist on a diet of rabbit food to be healthy, you just don’t want to be constantly having deep fried crap, donuts, Doritos, etc, and definitely not 3000 cal a day unless you’re an athlete or heavy manual worker.
It baffles me that we’ve had to invent a whole term “ultra processed” to describe things that a generation or two would just be called junk food.
As a new term, the definition of "ultra processed" is still being narrowed down and clarified, but at least it isn't saddled with several decades of past definitions or ideas of what junk food is or isn't.
It's become clear that ultra processed foods have major negative impacts on health in ways other foods don't. My guess is that as research into ultra processed foods continues we'll eventually end up with even more new terms to drill down into specific types of foods, production methods, and even marketing practices that are harmful/unhealthy.
There seems to be a handful of farms near maybe Norway that the high end grocery stores carry that claim to be different but couldn't verify.
They use like food coloring to make up for their unnatural farm diet.
Yeah maybe there are some issues with government efficiency if it took 30 years for foods like this to be able to brand themselves healthy whereas white bread could false advertise with FDA approval.
Especially since a large part of the required work is meta work to show that they worked "properly".
There are executive orders (and maybe laws? can't remember) that require all rule making to be subject to thorough cost benefit analysis.
One of the required actions between a proposed and final rule is to review, reply to, and perhaps amend rules based on comments. The final report indicates 400 comments, and includes responses to basically all of them.
For tuna it's recommended you don't eat it frequently becasue of high mercury levels.
Why would not consider that for things like salmon?
Unfortunately government bureaucracies basically operate in low trust mode because of accumulated scar tissue from previous problems.
Ripping out guard rails without building a high trust environment is asking for a speed run of all of the scar tissue to reform.
The fact that you characterized a slow process as corrupt, when a huge amount of the slowness is because of mandated rules put in place to attempt to mitigate corruption is in itself a sign of the low trust hell that these regulators live in.
Seems suss. The root word of Salmonella is Salmon; clearly it may not be healthy.
Water is just a rebranding of dihydrogen monixide, and we all know how bad that stuff is. It's made from rocket fuel, and you're trying to push it off as healthy?
If you’re digging up Dr. Salmon, after whom Salmonella is named, and consuming his corpse…yeah, that might be a bad idea.
If we lived in a dictatorship, things would go faster, public be damned. China gets things done, but at great expense to the impacted people.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/what-is-red-dye-40-effects/
The damage cause to society by a vast array of foods is likely the top contributor to not only disease-caused mortality but the massive cost of providing healthcare. The appointment of someone like RFK, with a mission to push for a healthy food supply makes me hopeful that we will find a path to better results.
On a personal level, after recognizing the terrible effects of bad food, I set out on a mission to change. I was type 2 diabetic and was also taking medication for hypertension. I changed my diet. Actively avoided everything outside what I call "basic" foods. I also added long term (7 to 14 day) fasting to help me push me over to the other side. It took a few months and effort. Today I am no-longer taking any medication and my blood tests come back with positive marks across the board. No more diabetes or hypertension.
Before someone suggests some of the changes had to do with exercise, well, no, that was not the case. I was determined to understand this issue of proper nutrition. So, I stopped all exercise for several months in order to isolate effects. I only started walking a couple of miles per day once I was off all medications. I achieved this result sitting in front of my computer coding and working, with the only change being dietary.
How many people out there have broken bodies and never-ending medical needs simply because they are eating horrible food? Well, if we are talking about diabetes --a metabolic disease-- the number is well over 35 million, with over a million people diagnosed every year and over 5000 children as well:
https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/about/about-type-2-diabetes.htm...
And for the vast majority of cases, you can eliminate and reverse this with food.
Look at the list of complications introduced by type 2 diabetes:
- Heart and blood vessel disease
- Nerve damage in limbs
- Other nerve damage (heart, digestive system, etc.)
- Kidney disease
- Eye damage
- Skin conditions
- Slow healing
- Hearing damage
- Sleep apnea
- Dementia
And that's just one of the diseases with nutrition as a root cause.
So, yeah, healthy food is important. The FDA needs to get a handle on this.
An airplane crashes and it becomes top news for days. Five thousand children and a million people per year are diagnosed with a diet-induced disease with horrible consequences and the media pays no attention to the issue at all.
The death and destruction caused by the global metabolic disease pandemic should make everyone take pause:
https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdf/S1550-4131(23)00039...
For context, COVID is estimated to have killed approximately 7 million people world-wide. Metabolic disease is killing over TEN MILLION every year and has been killing over 8 million per year for the last 20 years. And I am just quoting data from the Cell Metabolism Journal publication, which only covers 20 years. The destruction goes back decades beyond that.
In other words, this has been a real "clear and present danger" case for decades. This is precisely why these agencies need to be shake-up to the core. What have they been doing for the last 20 or 30 years?