Brigid Titgemeier argues the U.S. Dietary Guidelines have fueled America's chronic disease crisis, driving up obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and dementia. She rejects the claim that the Guidelines don't matter because people ignore them, saying they've actively shaped eating patterns that harm public health.
Since the Dietary Guidelines have been released, the health outcomes in the United States continue to get worse. Now, that doesn't mean necessarily that the Dietary Guidelines are solely responsible for the increase in the chronic health epidemic that we are faced with. But I've seen a lot of dietitians saying that the Dietary Guidelines have played no role in the chronic disease epidemic because no one follows them anyways. That could not be further from the truth. I completely disagree with the idea that the Dietary Guidelines have not contributed to worsened health in our country. They absolutely have fundamentally contributed to rising rates of obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, dementia, 1% rise in infertility every single year. The list goes on and on.
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