Change Coming to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans?

Published: Nov. 20, 2014, 8:56 p.m.

Mark expands the Primal Blueprint Podcast by recording select Mark's Daily Apple posts for your listening pleasure!

The Healthy Nation Coalition, whose director is Adele Hite, talented purveyor of the brilliant Eathropology blog, has produced a scathing letter detailing the specific shortcomings, failings, and falsehoods found in the past and likely future Dietary Guidelines. Though it\u2019s addressed to Tom Vilsack of the Department of Agriculture and Sylvia Burwell of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Healthy Nation Coalition\u2019s true target audience is \u201cbroad-based and includes scientists, health care practitioners, ranchers & farmers, health advocacy groups,\u201d and people like you guys. You can read it here.

So, what\u2019s their beef with the Guidelines? The Coalition\u2019s letter submits five points of contention. I\u2019ll go through each one of them in turn.

(These Mark's Daily Apple articles were written by Mark Sisson, and are narrated by Brock Armstrong)