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The industry groups most impacted. do you think the usda gets pressured to change the way they value science. is it outdated, the food industry? i don t think they can be immune to lobbyists and interest groups like any other federal organization, i don t think they can. but, again, i feel a lot of doctors groups have come out in support of what they do and say that they are trying to do their best and using best science to make their recommendations. the court of public opinion as we all know and by the way, since 2010 to 2015, social media, you know, i m not surprised we have that much more responsiveness at all. how about supplements? what is the latest on that? another territory hard to weigh into. this was interesting. from the new england journal of medicine. article that reported last week that said 23,000 hospital or er visits are due to supplements. putting that number, i m not a friend or foe of the industry, but putting that number into per ....
In health news, minimxed re to expected new dietary guidelines and that s whether some saturated fats should be in the cross hairs. the proposal calls for a diet moderate in low fat dairy products and low in red and processed meat. however, questions are now being raised about the agency s policy advising people to avoid full fat dairy products like whole milk. when recent studies suggest it is beneficial. joining me, dr. natalie azar. good to see you. good morning, alex. shouldn t the usda be making these guidelines when, you know, when all is said and done, are there conclusive for sure, for sure results in any of these tests? no. and alex, that s the important ....
Message here, a message that clearly came from both secretary vilsack and burwell, these guidelines are not meant to be the final word on nutrition. they are simply that they are guidelines. they use the best available evidence, the best science-based in information that they can to inform their decision-making. as they state themselves, in their defense, science is evolving and the guidelines are evolving to sort of meet that demand. how surprised are you that there are the guidelines that suggest full fat milk, for example, dairy products, will help reduce heart disease. there say lot of muddy waters here. one debate is about whether milk at all is good for you. the other debate is about whole milk and saturated fat and the other debate is whether the usda should be make the guidelines anyway or weighing in on them. the literature is definitely mixed. i think i personally would side with the american heart association that would say that saturated fats, which is what we re talkin ....
Necessarily heart healthy. and a lot of the studies that suggested that the low fat diets didn t improve heart outcomes was because people substituted saturated fat for carbohydrate. we know that s not good. i think what is important to the take home message is not all fats are bad. you want to have polyunsaturated fats, you want to have monounsaturated fats. those are good. the bad fats are the trans fats. saturated fats probably go in the middle. if it is me and i have a choice between a whole milk, you know, full glass of whole milk versus low fat or skim, i m going to take the low fat or skim because i get less calories, still get the nutritional value and less saturated fat. to me, the history the literature bears up that saturated fat might be more a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. there are people out there who say that s not true. so the last time the usda was updating the dietary guidelines, it had 2,000 public comments. 2,000. this time they got nearly 30,000 publ ....