Deans' stroke musings: New Dietary Guidelines set limit on added sugars, promote lifetime healthy eating patterns

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

New Dietary Guidelines set limit on added sugars, promote lifetime healthy eating patterns

If your doctor and hospital have done nothing on a stroke diet protocol why would you think they are doing anything about these guidelines?
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The 8th edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans was released in January by the HHS and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The guidelines have a strong focus on healthy eating patterns across the lifespan, limited calories from added sugars and saturated fats, and reduced sodium intake, in an effort to help Americans better manage their weight and decrease their risk for CVD, hypertension, type 2 diabetes and other diet-related chronic diseases. It is also the first edition of the guidelines to set measurable limits on how much added sugar Americans should consume.
“Protecting the health of the American public includes empowering them with the tools they need to make healthy choices in their daily lives. By focusing on small shifts in what we eat and drink, eating healthy becomes more manageable. The Dietary Guidelines provide science-based recommendations on food and nutrition so people can make decisions that may help keep their weight under control and prevent chronic conditions like type 2 diabetes, hypertension and heart disease,” HHS Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell said in a press release.

2015-2020 guidelines

The new document provides five overarching guidelines that encourage healthy eating patterns:

Follow a healthy eating pattern across the lifespan to help achieve and maintain a healthy body weight, support nutrition adequacy and reduce risk for chronic diseases.
Focus on variety, nutrient density and amount.
Limit calories from added sugars and saturated fats and decrease sodium intake by cutting back on foods and beverages high in these components to amounts that fit within healthy eating patterns.
Opt for healthier food and beverage choices.
Support healthy eating patterns for everyone, in multiple settings — from home to school to work to communities.

Key recommendations in the Dietary Guidelines include consuming a variety of nutrient-dense foods such as dark green, red and orange vegetables; legumes; starchy vegetables; whole fruits; grains, at least half of which are whole grains; and low- or fat-free milk, yogurt, cheese and fortified soy drinks. Protein-rich foods such as seafood, lean meats and poultry, eggs, soy, nuts and seeds, as well as plant-based oils, are also considered healthy choices. The Dietary Guidelines specifically limit consumption of saturated and trans fats, citing research that indicates replacing saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats is associated with reduced risk for CVD events and death.
Measurable limits were also set for added sugar, sodium, fats and alcohol:

Limit added sugars to less than 10% of daily caloric intake.
Limit sodium to less than 2,300 mg of daily caloric intake, and even less for children and adolescents aged younger than 14 years.
Limit saturated and trans fat to less than 10% of daily caloric intake.
Limit alcohol to up to one drink per day for women and up to two drinks per day for men of legal drinking age.

For adults with prehypertension and hypertension, further sodium reduction to 1,500 mg per day is recommended for an even greater reduction in BP. The effects of the DASH diet on BP and cholesterol have been cited in the DASH-Sodium Trial and the OmniHeart Trial.
One of the key recommendations from the 2010 Dietary Guidelines to limit consumption of dietary cholesterol to 300 mg per day was omitted in the new update due to a lack of evidence on the dose-response relationship between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol, according to the statement. The guidelines emphasize, however, that this change is not meant to suggest that dietary cholesterol is not important. As recommended by the Institute of Medicine, Americans should keep their dietary cholesterol intake to a minimum because the body makes enough cholesterol to support the body’s functions, according to the statement.