{"id":8852,"date":"2015-10-12T14:49:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T18:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=8852"},"modified":"2024-09-11T20:57:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T00:57:20","slug":"the-ravages-of-bad-federal-dietary-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/12\/the-ravages-of-bad-federal-dietary-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ravages of Bad Federal Dietary Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Horrendously-misguided federal dietary advice may have played a key role in one of the biggest public health disasters in recent American history.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government is in the process of revising in its dietary guidelines.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/10\/06\/for-decades-the-government-steered-millions-away-from-whole-milk-was-that-wrong\/\">Washington Post <\/a>recently had a long\u00a0piece on how the anti-whole milk\u00a0 bias in prior federal guidelines helped spur an increase in obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Obama administration officials were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/10\/07\/congress-takes-aim-at-the-science-behind-the-governments-nutrition-advice\/\">beaten up at a congressional hearing <\/a>shortly afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>And Washingtonians are mystified while Americans don&#8217;t trust the federal government?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thanks to Tom Toles for another excellent cartoon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horrendously-misguided federal dietary advice may have played a key role in one of the biggest public health disasters in recent American history. The federal government is in the process of revising in its dietary guidelines.\u00a0 The Washington Post recently had a long\u00a0piece on how the anti-whole milk\u00a0 bias in prior federal guidelines helped spur an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[149,56,744,322,423,38,324,165,745],"class_list":["post-8852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-agriculture","tag-cartoon","tag-federal-dietary-guidelines","tag-food-stamps","tag-hunger","tag-obama","tag-obesity","tag-paternalism","tag-whole-milk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Ravages of Bad Federal Dietary Advice - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Experts now recognize that bad federal dietary advice contributed to the obesity and diabetes epidemics hammering America. 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