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great thank you um for the introduction and thank you for inviting me
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to speak at the symposium um the tasks that i was given
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is to look at the history of fat and carbohydrate recommendations
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and at first i thought a history you know but then i really enjoyed looking back
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at uh where we yeah and um and asking the question of happy really changed
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and when you are given the task like this the first challenge you face of courses time and
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um i decided not to do ancient history which could have been interesting
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um but to really stay focused on the twentieth and the twenty first century
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so then the next challenge is the nature of reports to its examined
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and as you've heard from marion and adam many many recommendations addictive
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but ah focused on the authoritative reports from the united
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states them from w. h. o. f. a. o.
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obviously i'm most familiar with the uh the us
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authoritative reports the national academy of science reports
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but i i think taking an in depth look there gives us
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a look at what's happening globally and that was reaffirmed
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by including the reports from w. h. o. n. and f.
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a. o. which of course have a more global pockets
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so my question throughout looking at the of these reports was to really try to examine
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and to understand what has changed what is the nature of change that has happened
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so i i this time line just to highlight
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the key transition points that have impacted the nature of food nutrition recommendations
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um in the late eighteen hundreds and into the early nineteen hundreds
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i'm certainly things that connected through the and and water was the germ theory of disease
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the fact that something in your food could be well i'll cause of one of
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the uh some of the major public health problems that occur during that time
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and then in nineteen twelve that way of thinking was expanded or
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complimented like as mere found with the vitamin theory disease
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in which the absence of certain factors in the
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diet were associated with major public health problems
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and then in the nineteen sixties the concept
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that excess consumption and certain dietary factors
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was associated with non communicable disease cardiovascular disease heart disease
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began to emerge um primarily based on observation or epidemiological data
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and our understanding of the role of of student an attraction to health continues to the ball
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so my point is that all of these things exist at the same time but it's
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that transition in thinking that influences the way
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we think of that carbohydrate recommendations
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so then when you look at the nature recommendations the all this type of
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recommendations that included fat and carbohydrate were the suit guides food group
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so even before we knew all the essential nutrients and all these other factors
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food guides were put together as a way of saying here's a dietary
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pattern that's likely to be associated with health and well being
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in the nineteen forties and us beginning in nineteen forty one
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the r. d. a. recommended dietary allowance process was established
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so this then took on a more nutrient focus as we understood what
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nutrients did in relation to certain types of disease particularly deficiency diseases
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it now make recommendation of how much nutrient needed to be in the the diet
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and that process as the ball into the dietary reference intake
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and then the third phase or the food base
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dietary guidelines which began in the nineteen eighties
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sort of in a way coming full circle recognising um
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while scientists love nutrients consumers eat fruits and how do we express nutrients
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in terms of fruits so this evolution has been going on there
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yeah it's disappointing oh yes so i'm gonna focus on the
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the r. d. a. process because that's really where
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the scientific evaluation has been focused so
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to think in terms of the authoritative reports of signs that his trip and the the recommendations
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so i i'm in this light i'm gonna put up a table with carbohydrate and fat
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and these are the recommendations that you see in the
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national academy of sciences already a recommended dietary allowance
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so what what how did the dimensions around fat and carbohydrate evolve
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and um i i kind of want all agree nineteen sixty into it to one the
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first party a book i owned was nineteen sixty eight so that's that's my collection
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um but really if you look in those early reports that primary
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emphasis was on energy and really that carbohydrate and fat
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we're as well as protein where the primary energy sources and
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that carbohydrate and fat were essentially interchangeable as energy sources
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the concept of crude fibre existed but not from the thinking of the
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dietary essential point of view it's that's rough region the diet
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so nineteen sixty a each we see that there was no already a established but there was
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a recognition that you had to have some carbohydrate diet to thank you chose it
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um there was some recognition that sure there might be associated with dental
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care carriers and we began to see the term complex carbohydrate
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um and in this case referring primarily the cellulose and having cellular says
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um i've often thought that we might be better calling
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a complicated carbohydrate that complex was the term
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and really the nutrition significance was not really staying is known or understood it
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seventy four fibre is ball was acknowledged but again
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no demonstrated requirement for that in the diet
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so nineteen eighty we began to see a more specific direction of all
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that to decrease refined sugars increase complex carbohydrate
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in nineteen eighty nine is really a turning point um
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in terms of how we're thinking of recommendations
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and that turning point comes back to the two reports that marion talked about
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the diet and health report from the national research council implications for reducing chronic
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disease risk and the surgeon general's report on die on diet and health
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and so now the recommendations are more specific half the
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energy from carbohydrates complex carbohydrate rather than shoulders
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the recognition of the increase to the the need to increase
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fibre but with an emphasis on cyber containing fruits
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so we look at that you see a similar kind of evolution in
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the earliest thinking is primarily thought of as an energy source
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and in fact what some of the recommendations around energy source was
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recognise that for someone with the more strenuous work load
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perhaps they should have a higher fat diet because it was a more nutrient energy against diet
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i'm certainly we also understood the essential fatty yes it needs
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that some fat had to be in the diet to help with the absorption of fat soluble vitamins
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and also recognition that thought that was often a carrier flavour
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so in sixty eight we began to see that
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thinking evolving around fat and non communicable disease
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but it was evidence warns only tentative decisions as to
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desirable amounts of fat in patterns of fatty acids
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by seven before there was a reference to the american heart association
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recommendations on total fat saturated fat and poly unsaturated fatty acid
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but again these were viewed as for individuals at risk not for the general population
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and that was reiterated in nineteen eighty that recommendations um
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would that were linked to high risk of cardiovascular disease were
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appropriate but for that population not for the general population
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and now in nineteen eighty nine we again see the impact that those two seminal reports
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specific recommendations for the total population for the general population
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total fat should not exceed thirty percent of energy saturated fatty
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acid should be less than ten percent of energy
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and six cooper should not exceed ten percent of energy
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less than three hundred milligrams of of cholesterol
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during that time no already a was established for little lake or else a little manicure outside
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but the what would constitute sufficient amounts were discussed
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so the next iteration of the dietary guidelines the dietary reference intake
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it it is more of a key transition point because in nineteen ninety seven
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and you process the whole process was updated to the dietary reference
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we still have the r. d. a. n. e. a. r. which is the way of looking
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at the tree and adequacy making sure i'm nutrient intake is adequate to meet needs
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but now new terminology is being introduced and that new terminology actually lens
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the process more toward thinking about diet in non communicable disease
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um the concept of an adequate intake which is the estimated intake
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to sustain a to find nutritional stay the upper level
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the level above which risk of an adverse effect
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um increases is introduced and probably what's
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most relevant to fat and carbohydrate
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is the a. m. d. r. the acceptable map macro
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nutrient distribution range or range of nutrient intake
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that make sure that essential nutrient needs are met without increasing
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risk of an c. d. done nine communicable disease it's
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so now if we look at what the um the dietary reference intake start
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for energy carbohydrate tribe fibre fat fatty acids cholesterol that's the
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name of the report the two thousand and five report
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and this now it's not only us support that for the d.
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r. i. process both canada and the us supported the process
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so for carbohydrate we now have that are da of a hundred and thirty grams per day and that's based
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on prevention of teaches so you could just a stylish
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an r. d. a. based on a particular outcome
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the a. m. d. r. is then establishes forty five to sixty five percent of energy
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with for sure there for total sure there was no upper
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level established there was no adequate intake level establish
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i'm sure there's word linked to dental carries and they
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did a calculation in the report regarding added sugars
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and suggested that no more than twenty five percent
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of energy should be coming from added sugars
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mainly because of concern about allusion of the nutrient quality of the diet
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once added sugar exceeded that levels so it's more of a calculation to
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come up with that and it was not considered to you well
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dietary fibre was again viewed as not essential um but they could
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establish an a ah an adequate intake for dietary fibre
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and that was done based on decreasing rests for coronary heart disease
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the definition of fibre was expanded so we could include not
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only fibre from food but isolated in synthetic fibres
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as long as they had been demonstrated to have a physiological
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benefit um that are of physiological effect that benefits hell
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so in a sense it became consistent with the products definition
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but of course in us we always do everything aroma is so
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and the fat outside for total fat there's no yeah you are already a or a oh i
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but the a. m. g. r. the acceptable macro nutrient distribution range is
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as was established at twenty to thirty five percent of energy
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for saturated that trans fatty acids thankless role
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there is no e. a. r. r. d. a. a. i. are you well
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in the recommendation is that intake needs to be as low as possible
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looking at the whole in stature it's the little lake and yell full analytic else it
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for those individual there could be in a high establish
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an adequate intake established for the fatty acids
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based on the essential fatty yes it need but then an a. m.
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d. r. established if effect concept of what fits a healthy diet
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that meets nutrient adequacy but does not increase risk for for chronic disease
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for the and six who first the anti r. s. five to ten percent of energy
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for the and three it's point six to one point two of percent of energy
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and then a recognition that e. p. a. n. d. ha could be apart
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of meeting that a. m. d. r. but nothing beyond that for e. p.
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a. d. h. right and know you well was established for either one
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so i think it's fair to ask the question why was there no e. a. r.
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r. d. a. a. i. are you well for
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saturated fatty acids trans fatty acids thankless role
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and according to the report they're not essential nutrients so you don't
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need an r. d. a. for something that's non essential nutrients
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but beyond that when they looked at the evidence to
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see that link between intake of these lip it's
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and coronary heart disease the evidence suggests that there's a positive when
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your relationship between intake and wrist for coronary heart disease
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and when you look at those lines that were generated new can debate was this the right evidence
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to look at but when you look at those there's no break anywhere it's a linear relationship
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so there's not a point where risk increases in you should
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set and you well not to exceed a certain level
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and there's no break at the lower and so there's no minimum
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it becomes intake needs to be as low as possible
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now in contrast the dietary guidelines did
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establish criteria for what's appropriate for
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um saturated fat transfer yeah well transparent yes they still set as low as possible
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um and why why is that why could the dietary guidelines for americans
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make recommendations for fats where we couldn't for those body else it's
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work that couldn't be done in the d. r. i. process
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so with the dietary guidelines first of all they could reference the a. m. d. r.
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for total fat infer part ways just pulled that into the the dietary guidelines
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and then they use a technique called food pattern model wait so from pattern
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model in allows you to calculate calories for added sugars installer fat
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that notion you figure out what you need to eat me your essential nutrient needs
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how many calories are left over at the end of that process that can
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be added sugars in solid facts so the the the food uh the
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dietary guideline process also recognises the relationship between saturated fat in
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total fat if you have some fat in your diet
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it's like we're gonna have some saturated fat in the diet and that
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also saturated fat and cholesterol or part of certain food groups
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so if those fruit groups are in the diet there's going
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to be a certain amount of saturated fat and cholesterol
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so it's not based on an adverse effect it's based on a calculation
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of what's a reasonable amount to get you to that as low as
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possible or that came from the the d. r. ah process
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so there is a a new report and patrick stover it's
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the i think the expert here on this report
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um i'm not gonna talk about the report but there's a new report from the national academy
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and developing dietary reference intake space on chronic disease
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where it's recognising that the d. r. i. you establish for chronic disease
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differs from the kind of d. r. i. you would use to look at nutrient requirements
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and that it's a concept that applies to nutrients as well
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as other food substances meaning other non nutrient food substances
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and i've i've are allergic to the report because i think it
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will influence the way we think about fat and carbohydrate recommendations
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as on this process is move forward to establish these
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types of of the are the are on it
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so what is changing than when we look at recommendations
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if you look just at the numbers the numbers aren't
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changing that much of anything but been remarkably consistent
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but what is changing is first of all and
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identifies occasion of components within carbohydrate and fat
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we're now looking at the different components and recognising
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that those components have differential a fact
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and so we need to think about recommendations in terms of
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the effects of those different components within carbohydrate and fat
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i'm certainly then the role of non
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communicable diseases in um influencing recommendations
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we really thought that when when recommendations finally get
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modified um it's because we're now thinking about
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non communicable diseases and how do we lowered the
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rest for those diseases in the population
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and then this last point on evaluation of evidence i'm gonna come back to that
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um but for someone of what quickly at a w. h. o. f. a. o. process
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and i'm gonna do it briefly because really we're seen
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a similar kind of evolution and m. process
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but thinking more on a global level in global perspective
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so again if you look at the older reports um
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there been expert meetings for since the nineteen fifties
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and may tend to focus on the status signs for various
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nutrients and provided guidance on requirements and recommended in takes
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i'm beginning in the late nineteen seventies we
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now see several expert consultations on carbohydrate
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there's a expert consultations on fat and boils and these
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then began to pick up a different flavour
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so against focusing on the terminology the components within
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carbohydrates the components within fats and oils
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what are the different types and what level is so appropriate how do you quantify the
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recommendations regarding those different components within carbohydrates and
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within the fat and while category
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recognising technical issues in production and processing
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particularly on the fats and oils and how that might influence the the types of fats and oils
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and of course that impact on non communicable diseases and
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i i think equivalent to the surgeon general report in the n. r. c. report
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w. a. chose two thousand and three um t. r.
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nine one sect the expert consultation on diet
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nutrition and prevention of chronic disease is also one of those salmon all turning point reports
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where it was the recognition that on a global basis we need to look
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beyond just nutrient adequacy questions and also
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think in terms of increasing risk
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for non communicable diseases on a global basis and home
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including recommendations setting population targets for components that could
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be a associated with it in c. d.'s
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what's in progress right now is the w. h.
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o. is updating the recommendations um i'll
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talk a little bit more about the sure your recommendation that that marion referred to
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um and they have a but that also includes review on dietary fats as
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welles carbohydrates and some of those updates are are not published yet
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so to look briefly at w. h. o. f. a. or not gonna
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go through the whole background but if we start with um
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t. r. nine ones the acts the two thousand and three report
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you see as you go down total fat fifteen to thirty percent of
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energy saturated fat less than ten percent holly six to ten percent
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um trans fatty acids they make a recommendation of less than one percent
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models by difference cholesterol less than three hundred milligrams sounds familiar in terms of
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what we've been hearing for um recommendations on fat and carbohydrate um
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the there is a fat and while expert
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consultation that was published in twenty ten
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i'm not gonna read through all the numbers from that consultation in twenty ten
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i think what's important to understand about it came out
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of the f. a. o. w. h. o. consultation
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is the process then is shifting terminology it's looking at acceptable
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macro nutrient distribution range so it's using that concept of
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what's the range that allows you to meet nutrient needs
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well not increasing the risk of and c. d.
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um they actually use terminology such as a lower in d. r. you shouldn't go blow
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certain levels aren't up or a. m. d. r. you shouldn't go above certain levels
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um and then the other part that is real shift in the fats and oils report
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it's now looking at the strain of the evidence that supports these recommendations
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so it's moving beyond just an expert opinion into more
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of an evaluation of of strength up yeah buttons
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looking at the carbohydrate reports at the the bottom here
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um again total carbohydrate fifty five to seventy five percent of energy
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three sure there's less than ten percent and i think it's important to recognise that
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the less than ten percent of free sugar started in two thousand and
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three and was reaffirmed in the the update out but i'll talk more about
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that total fibre from foods non starch probably sack rides from fruits
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there was a another expert consultation and um and in two thousand
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and eighty basically into worse the the nine one six recommendations
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so i i i i had this fear that marion was gonna give you all the exciting stuff and i'm
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gonna bore you with faxes sorry we keep coming back to the same numbers over and over again
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but i'm gonna come back to this slide um because i've been focusing on
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b. r. d. a. process and i i think hopefully
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you see that as we've learned more about
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the role that food nutrition plays we change the nature of the r. d. a. is
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and we're looking at a process that allows us to
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incorporate a more information with respect to well uh
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um risk of nine communicable disease but at the end of the day it's a very nutrient
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oriented process looking at the science that helps us
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understand what we recommend for for nutrient
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and so i wanna also then think about how these other two types of guidelines fit
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the food guide and the um the dietary guidelines
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so from a historical point of view which was my
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task that the guys came first um that's that's
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where we were and i i actually just make sure you like i included in old food guide
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from the us that uh sort of preceded uh a lot of where we are today
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in terms of of thinking about home recommendation time on fat and carbohydrate and fart
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you can read that point three and i think it's actually get better recommendation because
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that was how many people got their vitamin a was what's from butter
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so then in the forties we started this process which is much more
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nutrients focus quantitative l. evidence uh uh
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s. men's of nutrient requirements
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and then in the um nineteen eighties we recognise
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that for consumers we had to figure out
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how do you express the principles of which may be trash and in terms of food
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and to do it the way that then becomes useful for policy decisions and um
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one of the key reports that had he mel was again and f. a.
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o. w. h. o. consultation on preparation use the three base dietary guidelines
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looking at my two colleagues down here route then michael who were very involved in in that report
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um and have a. o. has subsequently use that report to help many countries
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develop toothpaste dietary guidelines so it's moving toward but the food profit
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and i'm sure do the slide earlier um that the us dietary
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guidelines have been published every five years since nineteen eighty
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now keep in mind they do that because they're mandated by
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the law to publish dietary guidelines every five years
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but if a am showed you in a very nice table
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hell you know the the covers change some of what's highlighted on the cover changes that
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the basic recommendations have been pretty consistent over
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the history of the the dietary guidelines
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and if you look at uh what i regard as some of the the consistent messages
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on the cautionary side since the very beginning there's always
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been a cautionary message on saturated that yeah so
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um i think in nineteen ninety we started
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introducing cautionary messages on trends that yes
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it's it's been there ever since cholesterol it's been there from the the beginning
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i'm looking uh energy bounce that at balancing energy from total energy from far out
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added sugar consumption of refine those are all very consisting house very metal
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metal messages that had been in the dietary guidelines from the beginning
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likewise on the encourage side um sources of unsaturated
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fatty acids have been encouraged from the beginning
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and the kind of eating patterns that um meet nutrient requirements reduce and c. d. risk
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so they're fibre containing fruit their complex carbohydrates
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limiting the be added sugars those
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of all the and part of the messages from the get go
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so again not that much is changed and if i come back to
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this slide i've already talked a little bit about the first three
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but now i want to look at that issue of the evaluation of evidence to specify recommendations
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because that's an area where we see quite a bit of
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change and i think worse continuing to see evolution
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so i'm gonna use as an example from the us the
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evaluation of evidence from the dietary guidelines for americans
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so and again it's every five years so you can look at how the process has changed
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and if you look at from basically nineteen eighty to two thousand
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the method for reviewing the evidence was based on the
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collective knowledge and expertise of an advisory committee
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very good experts but still that was the basis for reviewing the evidence
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in two thousand and five the advisory committee the committee that advice is the government
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um had more of a task to search and review the scientific literature
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and then in twenty ten twenty fifteen a
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systematic review of scientific literature was introduced
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as the basis on which the dietary guidelines advisory committee was going to operate
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so since two thousand and five the focus has been on the production
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by an advisory committee at the technical report that's evaluating scientific evidence
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that goes to the government that then develops the dietary
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guidelines for americans based on those scientific conclusions
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and if you look at what the twenty fifteen dietary guidelines committee you used to they developed
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their scientific report which then informs the development of the the dietary guidelines
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they did they had systematic reviews that were commissioned
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based on questions raised by the advisory committee
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they used existing systematic reports that were relevant to use met
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analysis that existed or other types of authoritative reports
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they had data analysis primarily based on e. n. haynes survey in you have to
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look at the american population what they're eating what a disease patterns work
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and then the food pattern model in which i i mentioned so was the way of
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seeing what kind of food patterns could beat the recommendations
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w. h. o. has also implemented and evidence based process
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and there's the guidelines for at the for um i
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handbook for guideline development that's available from their website
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'kay have used a process referred to as the grade process
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and if you ask me out remember what grades stands for but
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it's basically a systematic review process to look at the literature
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how one add value weights epidemiological data randomised controlled
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trials what criteria used to develop um
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a a rubric to understand the strength of the the evidence
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so just to remind you that still the basic recommendations are anti r. nine one six
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and what had uh what debbie way joe has published in terms of their up day or guidelines on
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sodium potassium and i'm free sugars sodium and potassium aren't carbohydrates are fat so i'm in a
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look a little bit more at the um at the shelter guideline so the sure guideline
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there to key systematic reviews that underline the sugar guideline from w. h. o.
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the one looks that dietary sugars and body weight and the
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other looks at home free sugars and dental care it's
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those two systematic reviews of the literature are what informs
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the development of the the w. h. o. guideline
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so just to remind you of the specific they're actually three recommendations
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wanna general recommendation to reduce intake uh free sugars
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and then um one that recommends reducing intake uh free shudders to less than ten percent of
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total energy a strong recommendation and then asked for the rent reduction to less than
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five percent of the total energy intake which is the conditional recommendation
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now for me to really understand the w. h. o. recommendations you have to look at the remarks
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and i don't have i haven't summarised all the remarks
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that i i tell these three points work he
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to understanding the recommendations and how that we we chose operate
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so the first recommendation is looking at the totality of evidence
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that um w. h. o. had on the relationship or free sugars to body weight
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and the relationship to dental carries so it's a general recommendation
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recommendation to that ten percent of total energy less than ten percent of total energy
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is based on the mater quality evidence from observation all studies and dental
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carries so the numerical recommendation comes from the dental carries work
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and the recommendation three the thought um conditional recommendation it's conditional
00:34:09
because it's based on very low quality yeah buttons
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but it's evidence that w. h. o. felt should not be ignored
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now i i can't say i'm anything more about carbohydrate
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and fat with respect to w. h. o.
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this poem details slide here is the agenda from the alignment meeting
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of the nutrition guidance expert advisory group it met in croatia
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in july of this year and you can see from the agenda and if
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you look at the edge and uh for the meetings preceding us
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clearly w. h. o. is working toward updating
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its recommendations on fat and carbohydrate
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um there are some systematic reviews that happen publish
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so there's one looking at reducing total fat intake on body weight
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there's one on trans fatty acid intake and let let
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that unlike for proteins and unsaturated fatty acid
00:35:09
on sermon but but sunlight approaching so the fact that w. h.
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o. has commissioned those studies tells you what they're looking at
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transparent in that regard so this graph um is i took this
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graph from a report that f. a. o. has recently published
00:35:29
and which the report the report is actually aimed at looking
00:35:32
at sustainability issues and how they affect dietary guideline messages
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but this is a summary of what they saw was the most common messages in guidelines and
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they rang countries by income level and so you see i i put an arrow
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for the countries without recommendations in countries with uh i'm sure recommendations
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pretty much all countries have recommendations in in this regard
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and if you look within the report um at least
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ninety percent of countries redo across all income levels
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recommend reduce fact consumption are changing in type of fat
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particularly as it relates to non communicable disease virtually
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all countries also talk about reducing sugar consumption
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i'm particularly free sugars or added sugars don't have slightly different meanings
00:36:30
and then there's several additional things that relate to carbohydrates and fat
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um foods that provide fibre cooking your preparation method they all relate to
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um but the type any amount of fat in the diet
00:36:45
so i i come back then to my opening
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question fat and carbohydrate recommendations have they changed
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i'm certainly are traditional thinking of carbohydrate and fat as
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energy sources and for fat as essential fatty acids
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um but those have not changed we do still recognise those roles
00:37:06
i think we've kind of mood pass crude fibre at this point i'm in part because
00:37:12
we now think in terms of dietary fibre non start how in fact right
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on as well as then looking at shelters the nature of digestible carbohydrates
00:37:22
what impact they have on t. i. physiology quite scenic effect
00:37:26
um within fats we're looking again at those components so
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again if you focus on the numbers the numbers haven't really changed
00:37:38
sometimes we say thirty percent energy from fat sometimes we say thirty five percent
00:37:43
energy from fat what has changed is that recognition of the components
00:37:48
and i think more work is still needed to really
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understand the various components within carbohydrate in within fat
00:37:56
quantification of the recommendations we are now looking at
00:37:59
how much makes a reasonable dietary pattern
00:38:03
and certainly the role nine communicable diseases has been key in determining recommendations
00:38:09
and the evidence that we're using to specify or recommendations so
00:38:15
thinking about what has changed in what has not changed
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i think it also identifies some future challenges
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um and just some of the things that occurred to me in terms of future challenges
00:38:29
i'm often frustrated by the mix meanings for terminology
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um my talk example is what is meant by low fat in what is meant by high fat
00:38:39
i know that in nineteen ninety when i'm thirty percent energy from fat was
00:38:44
put in the dietary guidelines that was viewed as a low fat diet
00:38:49
in two thousand and that was declared as a moderate fat diet
00:38:54
um and some white recorded now as high fat diets so
00:38:59
these terms get bandied about that without the specificity of what we mean by low
00:39:04
fat what we mean by high fat i'm likewise what is meant by sweets
00:39:09
um i often see in the public literature the terms sweets used to imply sure
00:39:15
that when the foods that are talked about in i think variance point is right on
00:39:21
when we talk about the suits those students often or sources of fat
00:39:27
brief other types of refined carbohydrates as well the shippers so we need
00:39:31
to start talking about those foods not just the the components
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um i think another important areas the emerging focus on dietary patterns
00:39:41
that address boat nutrient adequacy as well as reducing the risks
00:39:45
for for and in c. d.'s not communicable diseases
00:39:50
and i think the dietary powdered approach gives us the opportunity to integrate across recommendations
00:39:56
um if anything looking across the timeline i would say that
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a single nutrient approach is so twentieth century it over
00:40:08
twenty first century says we really now need to think more in terms
00:40:12
of dietary patterns systems approaches how to integrate across our recommendation
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um the evidence based approaches are becoming increasingly
00:40:23
important and how we set our recommendations
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and that requires a true investment in how we develop the
00:40:31
evidence space that will be needed for those recommendations
00:40:35
it's not a trivial issue to actually invest in research
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that leads us to hard outcomes not just surrogate
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outcomes if we're going to be successful
00:40:46
in this area and of course i think it's only fair add
00:40:51
something sponsored by mental nestle to also raises the question of
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what is the role of the food industry in helping consumers me recommendations
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um the food industry is the master of taste cost inconvenience
00:41:05
and often times it's used as a waiter criticising
00:41:09
industry and criticising what is being doing beat
00:41:13
it has been done in terms of the public in some of our public health challenges
00:41:19
but taste cost inconvenience can also be a way
00:41:22
to help consumers make better choices and
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i hope that that's the direction will be going in the future thank you how