Maybe they should just shut up and not publish any damn guidelines.

[wombat_socho]

Egg on Their Faces by Steven Malanga, City Journal Summer 2010:According to Scientific American, growing research into carbohydrate-based diets has demonstrated that the medical establishment may have harmed Americans by steering them toward carbs. Research by Meir Stampfer, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard, concludes that diets

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[darksumomo]

And then there's the mismatch between what the USDA recommends and what Congress subsidizes.



Neither one of those works for my wife and me. About equal amounts of vegetables and meat+dairy with very little in the way of grains has made my wife and I lose more than 20 pounds each. Also, my wife's blood glucose has decreased to the middle of the normal range. Her cholesterol and triglycerides have gone down as well.

[wombat_socho]

I'd be interested in seeing a more detailed breakdown of the meat/dairy subsidies between meat and dairy. I know that there are milk price supports, and of course the government cheese program is infamous, but do they really subsidize ranchers and feedlot operators in the same way they do corn growers and the ethanol scammers?

Good on you and your wife for cutting back on the grains. You can make definite progress on the BG and weight fronts by watching your carbs; it's appalling how it doesn't get talked about aside from occasional references to the Atkins and South Beach diets.