Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
A great deal of misinformation has been put out about the dietary guidelines by online diet influencers who seek to market themselves by posing themselves as an "alternative" to official recommendations. Usually this misinformation tries to suggest that the dietary guidelines say something that is radically unhealthy or unwholesome. They also try to conceal a very inconvenient fact: often the guidelines are 100% consistent with their own recommendations. Here I break down some misinformation put out by health influencer Max Lugavere. I like Max, but this misinformation needs to stop.
Max wrote:
Current U.S. nutrition guidelines call for:
* vegetable oil dressings and spreads
* 10 slices of bread a day (5 white)
* up to 70 grams of added sugar daily
* minimal meat
If we followed these guidelines, would we be healthier? Or sicker?
In this video/podcast, I go through each of these claims in turn, using the actual official document of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans, found here: dietaryguidelines.gov/sites/default/files/2021-03/Dietary_Guidelines_for_Americans-2020-2025.pdf
For reference, the pages of the document with the relevant content are here:
oils- page 48
grains- page 45
sugars- page 50
meat- page 46
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A great deal of misinformation has been put out about the dietary guidelines by online diet influencers who seek to market themselves by posing themselves as an "alternative" to official recommendations. Usually this misinformation tries to suggest that the dietary guidelines say something that is radically unhealthy or unwholesome. They also try to conceal a very inconvenient fact: often the guidelines are 100% consistent with their own recommendations. Here I break down some misinformation put out by health influencer Max Lugavere. I like Max, but this misinformation needs to stop.
Max wrote:
Current U.S. nutrition guidelines call for:
* vegetable oil dressings and spreads
* 10 slices of bread a day (5 white)
* up to 70 grams of added sugar daily
* minimal meat
If we followed these guidelines, would we be healthier? Or sicker?
In this video/podcast, I go through each of these claims in turn, using the actual official document of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans, found here: dietaryguidelines.gov/sites/default/files/2021-03/Dietary_Guidelines_for_Americans-2020-2025.pdf
For reference, the pages of the document with the relevant content are here:
oils- page 48
grains- page 45
sugars- page 50
meat- page 46
=====
Like, comment, subscribe.
For more, find me at:
PODCAST The Kevin Bass Show
WEBSITE thedietwars.com
TWITTER twitter.com/kevinnbass
twitter.com/healthmisinfo
INSTAGRAM instagram.com/kevinnbass
TIKTOK tiktok.com/@kevinnbass
And above all, please donate to support what I do.
PATREON patreon.com/kevinnbass
DONATE thedietwars.com/support-me
