Problems with the US Government Dietary Guidelines

By Mark Collins

Based on the book, "Maximum Irony," this scientific lecture describes a quantitative nutritional theory which suggests deficiencies in the US government's approach to nutrition. The book also contains a quantitative nutritional analysis of foods (based on total essential nutrients per calorie) in the USDA database, with tables of the top twenty five most nutritious foods, the most nutritious food groups, and a new food pyramid.

In this quantitative nutritional model, the more nutritious a food group, the more weight it has in the pyramid. Whole grains, long the base of the USDA pyramid, are at the top of the new pyramid because whole grains are the least nutritious whole food group. Fish and meats are more prominent in this pyramid because they pack more nutrition per calorie than seeds, nuts, legumes, dairy, fruit, and whole grains. Only vegetables, the base of the new food pyramid, have more nutrition per calorie than fish and meats.

The book, "The Square Meal Diet," extends this thesis, providing a practical solution to our health problems that involves only small changes to our current diet and exercise habits.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Collins
• Release date: Feb 10, 2011

Mark Collins

Mark Collins (MDiv, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) has served as a cross-cultural missionary for more than twenty years. He currently serves as a pastor for a church in East Asia. Mark and his wife, Megan, have six children.

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Problems with the US Government Dietary Guidelines

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Volume 4

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Mark Leo Collins, PhD Biochemistry,

Smashwords Edition 2011

Based on his book Maximum Irony,

Appendices 7, 8, 9

Copyright 2006

Mark Leo Collins

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Table of Hyperlinked Contents

Why diets don't work

Initial set of common-sense dietary rules

Simplified nutritional model

The most nutritious food groups

Proper Food Pyramid

The most nutritious foods

Problems with current RDAs

Putting this theory into practice

Summary

A Thought Experiment

Author Bio

Developed strong interest in nutrition in grade school

In the late 1960’s my restless experimentation convinced me that the official US government dietary recommendations were wrong-headed, as I gained weight the more heavily I consumed grain-based foods

Finally, I went against government advice and easily lost 80 pounds

Maintained a trim and proper weight ever since (for over 40 years) on my whole foods nutritional program in which foods are consumed in direct proportion to their quantitative nutritional scores.

Received degrees in Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, and Biochemistry

Enjoyed a 16 year career as a research scientist doing DNA-based quantitative diagnostics (18 US Patents)

Enjoying an ongoing