Your argument is that food guidelines don’t drive outcomes (in America), and also that a particular set of guidelines is correct, because obviously they’re driving outcomes (in Vietnam).? This argument is missing a bunch of pieces.
In any case, if you believe the food pyramid is great for Americans, I’m not interested in convincing you otherwise, so feel free to ignore my point.
My argument is that guidelines are treated as a scapegoat and that they’re largely unrelated to outcomes, in both America and Vietnam.
The real difference here, between America and Vietnam, is the prevalence and consumption of highly palatable foods.
In any case, if you believe the food pyramid is great for Americans.
Actually, yeah… I would say just about every American alive would be healthier if they strictly followed the macros and calorie intakes recommended by the USDA (there would be some exceptions for people with specific food allergies and the like), and I’ve never seen any evidence to the contrary.
Even if Americans understand them, most Americans don’t follow them because self-control is hard and it’s harder in an environment with abundances of cheap and highly palatable food, so virtually no Americans follow the USDA guidelines with any significant level of compliance. I would say Stephan Guyenet hypotheses about obesity are basically correct, and his critiques of fad diets are almost as good.
Your argument is that food guidelines don’t drive outcomes (in America), and also that a particular set of guidelines is correct, because obviously they’re driving outcomes (in Vietnam).? This argument is missing a bunch of pieces.
In any case, if you believe the food pyramid is great for Americans, I’m not interested in convincing you otherwise, so feel free to ignore my point.
My argument is that guidelines are treated as a scapegoat and that they’re largely unrelated to outcomes, in both America and Vietnam.
The real difference here, between America and Vietnam, is the prevalence and consumption of highly palatable foods.
Actually, yeah… I would say just about every American alive would be healthier if they strictly followed the macros and calorie intakes recommended by the USDA (there would be some exceptions for people with specific food allergies and the like), and I’ve never seen any evidence to the contrary.
Even if Americans understand them, most Americans don’t follow them because self-control is hard and it’s harder in an environment with abundances of cheap and highly palatable food, so virtually no Americans follow the USDA guidelines with any significant level of compliance. I would say Stephan Guyenet hypotheses about obesity are basically correct, and his critiques of fad diets are almost as good.