US 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines

The recent release, Dietary Guidelines 2015 for the American, created some out of proportion attention. Readers, as usual, chose to pick on what they wanted to read, the dropped dietary cholesterol. Some acquaintances who overheard it decided to throw the whole science out and said "see, I told you?! No need to control diet one..."

Here's the executive summary of the guidelines, if you are interested.

Pertaining to general reaction and confusion, my summarized comments are:
1. Dietary cholesterol is different from blood cholesterol. High blood cholesterol remains a marker for cardiovascular diseases. Even though play lesser significant roles in increasing blood cholesterol, that doesn't mean it will not at all.  

2. Don't overlook the other key points, particularly the one on restricting saturated fat, sodium and added sugar. Our Malaysian diet, especially for us who eat out once or twice a day, is loaded with saturated fat in the form of lemak santan or animal fat. Please be careful in managing the saturated fat, if you have high risk of developing high cardiovascular diseases.

3. Moderation is the shortcut key.

Executive Summary - 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines - health.gov

Over the past century, deficiencies of essential nutrients have dramatically decreased, many infectious diseases have been conquered, and the majority of the U.S. population can now anticipate a long and productive life. At the same time, rates of chronic diseases—many of which are related to poor q…

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