<story><title>New U.S. Dietary Guidelines Reject Recommendation to Cut Sugar, Alcohol Intake</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-u-s-dietary-guidelines-reject-recommendation-to-cut-sugar-alcohol-intake-11609254000</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chlodwig</author><text>Many years ago I would have viewed an official government nutrition document as a credible source, and random blogs on the internet as a trash source of information. And I still believe one must be very sceptical of random blogs on the internet. Yet, most randos on the internet will at least cite their sources and explain their reasoning for all their decisions. But in the 150 pages long form document, I do not see sources cited or reasoning explained -- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dietaryguidelines.gov&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;2020-12&amp;#x2F;Dietary_Guidelines_for_Americans_2020-2025.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dietaryguidelines.gov&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;2020-1...&lt;/a&gt; Is there some other source that explains their decision making process?&lt;p&gt;In particular, I would be really curious to know what the basis is for the guideline that saturated fats should be replaced by &amp;quot;vegetable&amp;quot; oils, and that &amp;quot;saturated fat should be less than 10% of calories.&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;ve looked at a lot of studies myself over the years, and find the evidence against seed oils to be much stronger than the evidence against saturated fat.</text></comment>
<story><title>New U.S. Dietary Guidelines Reject Recommendation to Cut Sugar, Alcohol Intake</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-u-s-dietary-guidelines-reject-recommendation-to-cut-sugar-alcohol-intake-11609254000</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nradov</author><text>There is no scientific evidence that publishing US federal government dietary guidelines has ever done anything to improve public health. This is a total boondoggle and waste of taxpayer money. The FDA and Congress should cancel the entire program.</text></comment>