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Why The US Dietary Guidelines Don\u2019t Apply to 90% Of Americans And How They Can | This episode is brought to you by Tushy, Essentia, and Four Sigmatic\nThe dietary guidelines laid out by the government are conflicting with good health in so many ways. For one, they are recommendations that would only work for someone who is already healthy, yet close to 90% of our population in the US is metabolically unhealthy. They also don\u2019t take ethnicity and socioeconomic status into account, among many other factors. This is a big issue. Clearly, we should be providing Americans with guidelines that will actually serve their health. And research shows that whether we like it or not, as a society we\u2019ve followed the guidelines over several decades and suffered the consequences of worsening health.\xa0\nToday\u2019s guest has been a huge inspiration to me, as she\u2019s challenged the conventional wisdom on nutrition and continues to expose the truth behind our guidelines and the food industry. Nina Teicholz is a science journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Big Fat Surprise, which upended the conventional wisdom on dietary fat\u2014especially saturated fat\u2014and spurred a new conversation about whether these fats in fact cause heart disease. Named a Best Book of the Year by the Economist, Wall Street Journal, and Mother Jones, among others, it continues to be called a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the amazing story of how we came to believe fat is bad for our health\u2014and what a better diet might look like.\xa0\nThis episode is brought to you by Tushy, Essentia, and Four Sigmatic\nThe Tushy bidet is a sleek attachment that clips onto your existing toilet and connects to the water supply behind your toilet to spray you with clean, fresh water. Right now Tushy is offering Doctor\u2019s Farmacy listeners 10% off, just go to hellotushy.com/HYMAN.\xa0\nEssentia makes mattresses that go above and beyond the criteria to be non-toxic. Right now, Essentia is offering Doctor\u2019s Farmacy listeners 25% off plus 2 Free Comfort pillows with your purchase of an Essentia Lifestyle, Performance, Wholebody Recovery, or Hybrid mattress at learn.myessentia.com/drmarkhyman.\xa0\xa0\nFour Sigmatic is now providing an exclusive offer for Doctor\u2019s Farmacy listeners. Receive up to 40% off on their bestselling Lion\u2019s Mane Coffee bundles. To get this deal, just go to foursigmatic.com/hyman.\xa0\nHere are more of the details from our interview:\xa0\n\xa0\nHow we are all affected by the U.S. dietary guidelines, even if we think we aren\u2019t (7:06)\n\nWhy the guidelines don\u2019t apply to the majority of Americans (12:01)\n\n90% of scientific reviews that inform the U.S. dietary guidelines did not take race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status into account (17:43)\n\nConflicts of interest among scientists on the U.S. dietary guidelines scientific committee (21:22)\n\nHow the Office of Dietary Guidelines prohibits consideration of systematic reviews (31:21)\xa0\n\nWhy the U.S. Dietary Guidelines Committee chose not to consider research on weight loss and low-carbohydrate diets (34:32)\n\nThe ongoing confusion about saturated fat, cholesterol, and heart disease (42:05)\n\nWhat can the average person do to improve the U.S. dietary guidelines? (53:28)\n\nHow to design guidelines that would help fix chronic disease (56:24)\n\nLearn more about Nina Teicholz at https://ninateicholz.com/ and follow her on Facebook @NinaTeicholz and on Twitter @bigfatsurprise.\nLearn more about The Nutrition Coalition at https://www.nutritioncoalition.us/.\nRead, \u201cSaturated Fats and Health: A Reassessment and Proposal for Food-Based Recommendations: JACC State-of-the-Art Review\u201d here:\nhttps://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jacc.2020.05.077\n\n \nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices