Potentially reversing almost 40 years of government policy, the top nutrition advisory board for the United States has dropped its warning against dietary cholesterol. The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee concluded that no evidence supports a link between dietary cholesterol and heart disease.
Even five years ago, the committee was still promoting the warning first popularized by the American Heart Association in 1961. But the new position has been a long time coming.
"There's been a shift of thinking," said Walter Willett, chair of the nutrition department at the Harvard School of Public Health. He called the committee's decision to drop the cholesterol warning a "reasonable move."
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee provides science-based recommendations to the federal government, in the form of a publication called "Dietary Guidelines." The government uses that publication to make decisions about everything including dietary advice (such as the food pyramid), school lunch content and food labeling policy.
In its new recommendations, the committee has embraced the emerging scientific consensus that consuming cholesterol in foods such as eggs, shrimp or lobster does not significantly increase blood levels of cholesterol in healthy adults, and does not increase the risk of heart disease. That's because the body actually produces its own cholesterol, in levels much higher than those that can realistically come from food. Full story...
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Even five years ago, the committee was still promoting the warning first popularized by the American Heart Association in 1961. But the new position has been a long time coming.
"There's been a shift of thinking," said Walter Willett, chair of the nutrition department at the Harvard School of Public Health. He called the committee's decision to drop the cholesterol warning a "reasonable move."
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee provides science-based recommendations to the federal government, in the form of a publication called "Dietary Guidelines." The government uses that publication to make decisions about everything including dietary advice (such as the food pyramid), school lunch content and food labeling policy.
In its new recommendations, the committee has embraced the emerging scientific consensus that consuming cholesterol in foods such as eggs, shrimp or lobster does not significantly increase blood levels of cholesterol in healthy adults, and does not increase the risk of heart disease. That's because the body actually produces its own cholesterol, in levels much higher than those that can realistically come from food. Full story...
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