Austrialian Guide to Healthy Eating

La Fenetre

I came across the Australian dietary guidelines recently and they seem pretty good to me.

Nutrition Australia unveiled their new, and a much improved food pyramid this year.
It's based off their nutrition guidelines released in 2013.

Their guidelines are the product of a review of approx. 55,000 scientific papers worldwide.

What do people here think of them ?

La Fenetre

Anyone had a look at them ? Surprising no one has seeing they seem to be one of the best national guidelines out there at the moment.

Alf Veedersane

Linky?

Zamboni

http://www.nutritionaustralia.org/national/healthy-eating-pyramid/updating-pyramid

Alf Veedersane

Nice one.

It's only a small thing but I really like the removal of the sh*t you should be avoiding from the pyramid and putting an X over it.

Zillah

Still acting like fats are something to be feared. Great to see fruit and veg at the bottom.

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Zillah wrote: »

Still acting like fats are something to be feared. Great to see fruit and veg at the bottom.

Not really, the top of the pyramid contains them in quite a few different forms.

A graphic can't explain everything though, the guidelines are more detailed.

Agree about the fruit and veg, and I'd like to see exercise shown along the bottom as well.

Alf Veedersane

La Fenetre wrote: »

I'd like to see exercise shown along the bottom as well.

It's covering healthy eating though. Not health in general.

ford2600

Better than previous efforts and in fairness it's hard to cover all bases.

On the healthy fats, not sure they have it right. Essential fatty acids are all polyunsaturated but we need very little of them, some evidence they are not healthy at all in high doses.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673671910865

Insofar as I can remember from previous reading the control group and experimental group diet was identical except saturated fat was used for cooking in control group and polyunsaturated in experimental group. Also there was significantly more smokers in control group. Chris Masterjohn has a good discussion or two on it

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Alf Veedersane wrote: »

It's covering healthy eating though. Not health in general.

Well the latest version on their website is called the healthy living pyramid, and includes a reminder at the bottom to be active every day, so looks like they picked up on it.

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ford2600 wrote: »

On the healthy fats, not sure they have it right. Essential fatty acids are all polyunsaturated but we need very little of them, some evidence they are not healthy at all in high doses.

Insofar as I can remember from previous reading the control group and experimental group diet was identical except saturated fat was used for cooking in control group and polyunsaturated in experimental group. Also there was significantly more smokers in control group. Chris Masterjohn has a good discussion or two on it

As their board reviewed 55,000 scientific papers on diet, I'm pretty sure they do have it right, and no where do they recommend high does, they are at the top of the pyramid. Someone else was complaining earlier there wasn't enough fat on the pyramid. The pyramid is only a quick visual graphic, if you are really interested you need to read their guidelines, which are over 200 pages.

Runner2012

This Australian "nutritionist" clearly has a lot to learn so....


http://www.businessinsider.com.au/what-a-nutritionist-eats-in-a-day-2015-9#/#i-am-thirsty-when-i-wake-up-so-i-start-the-day-with-a-combo-juice-of-calcium-fortified-orange-juice-and-100-cranberry-juice-1

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Runner2012 wrote: »

This Australian "nutritionist" clearly has a lot to learn so....

what has some who ignores the guidelines got to do with them ?

davmol

http://wellnessmama.com/575/how-grains-are-killing-you-slowly/

Wellness mama disagrees with the aussie guidelines too

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davmol wrote: »

Wellness mama disagrees with the aussie guidelines too

Hmmm Quackery, or the Australian board of experts that reviewed 55,000 scientific studies to come up with the guidelines. Hard to choose.