{"id":10963,"date":"2019-04-13T08:05:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T15:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gotcareerlink.com\/?p=10963"},"modified":"2022-06-18T18:30:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T01:30:46","slug":"the-u-s-home-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotcareerlink.com\/?p=10963","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Home Plate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sugar Alert \u2013\nThe U.S. Home Plate<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Dean L. Jones, C.P.M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet another approach to eating well was announced this\nmonth by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).  The government explicitly recognizes that\nprevious guidelines on healthy eating were flawed and the latest data shows a\nmuch more improved approached to suggesting how Americans should practice\neating each day.  The old familiar food\npyramid (MyPyramid) is officially obsolete and replaced with a food dining plate.  The new \u201cMyPlate\u201d icon is the look the\ngovernment recommends we practice by eating more vegetables and fruit, balanced\nby grains and protein, while the dairy food group is presented as an add-on choice\nto each meal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The First Lady Michelle Obama\u2019s \u2018Let\u2019s Move!\u2019\nInitiative has prompted public health professionals to be more active in\npromoting straight forward messages about basic eating patterns.  She is successfully getting the food agencies\nof the government to address how the U.S. citizenry is detrimentally\nexperiencing an epidemic of overweight and obesity.  Her work is getting the USDA to offer an\nonline Internet tool that consumers can use to personalize and manage their\ndietary and physical activity choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government expressed as part of this dietary overhaul\non daily eating practices to avoid and\/or reduce foods with high sodium (salt)\nlike soup, bread, and prepackaged frozen meals. \nAlso, the USDA made the clearest and what I believe to be the best message\nwhich is for consumers to avoid sugary drinks all together.  Mentioning that processed sugar is harmful to\nhealth is huge, considering how in the past the government protected the\nproviders of fats, sugars and alcohol products. \nPretty much all of the 1900\u2019s up through the 21st<\/sup> Century,\nthe closet the government had come to addressing this issue was stating a need\nto moderate the intake of fats, sweets, and alcohol.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the references to sugars, fats, alcohols and\noils have disappeared, I still find it very strange how the previous category\ncalled “meat and beans” is now simply proteins.  For me, a fresh bean consists of far superior\nhealth properties to that of any dead flesh. \nConsequently, proceed with personal wisdom in following this overtly\nsimplistic food plate designed by the federal government.  Bear in mind, many advisors on the approval\nof this newly promoted health plate include representatives from both the dairy\nand meat industries.  <\/p>\n\n\n

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— <\/em>Www.SugarAlert.com<\/em><\/a> —<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dean L. Jones is a marketing strategist with the\nSouthland Partnership Corporation, a public benefit organization.  He has published a series of consumer alert\narticles based on his view of barefaced mismanagement of food\/beverage\nproducts.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sugar Alert \u2013 The U.S. Home Plate By Dean L. Jones, C.P.M. Yet another approach to eating well was announced this month by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).  The government explicitly recognizes that previous guidelines on healthy eating were flawed and the latest data shows a much more improved approached to suggesting how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sugar","eq-blocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotcareerlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotcareerlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotcareerlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotcareerlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotcareerlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gotcareerlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10978,"href":"https:\/\/gotcareerlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963\/revisions\/10978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotcareerlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotcareerlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotcareerlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotcareerlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}