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Dr. Feinman
It's not often that a government body may be willing to listen to the will of the people.
According to Richard Feinman, PhD, change may be a-coming.
Look out, world.
According to Dr. Feinman, at a seminar Eric Westman gave recently at Downstate:
Dr. Sheldon Landesman of the School of Public Health raised a good question: "The major focus of diets based on carbohydrate restriction are fundamentally therapeutic. How could the benefits that you presented be utilized in making recommendations to the population at large?"
Furthermore, Feinman adds, it might be interesting to ask how people with diabetes may react to various carb counts. Would maintenance for someone with the diease be at the same level of carbohydrate for those without? Adding to this is the great number of people who are overweight and don't wish to lose weight, options present themselves. If caloric restriction at a higher carbohydrate level is so darned effective, why is obesity in this nation continuing to climb at an alarming rate?
Pressing questions? Dr. Feinman thinks so-- and the USDA may agree.
So much so, a panel is convening to make recommendations for 2010. With such a large portion of our nation currently eating whole, healthy lower carbohydrate regimens for health and weight loss, it is frustrating to see no representation on the panel from the low-carb community.
In fact, says Feinman, some who are on the panel are probably actively antagonistic to such an approach.
The Metabolism Society is now asking for readers to consider the following and to contact them with your suggestions for the following important question:
How can the benefits of carbohydrate restriction that you have experienced, personally or in your immediate environment, be translated into reasonable recommendations that the USDA could put out? In short: What kind of changes should reasonably be recommended to the USDA?
Feinman asks that recommendations be short and to the point, as results will be published in scientific and popular literature, and key points will be raised to Chairman of the 2010 committee, Brian Wassink.
I think they are right to call our bluff on what we would actually do if we had access to policy."
Send thoughts and questions to Lauri Cagnassola nmsoci@nmsociety.org
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