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Welcome to How to Eat Right. This web site is designed to enable the reader to take personal responsibility for his or her own health. The increasing epidemic of obesity and other chronic disease obviously shows that, as individuals or as a nation, we have, up to now, failed to attain this goal.
If you are given the wrong directions, you will not get to where you want to go.
This site is meant to give you the right directions! You will need to discard the old road maps that you have been given. We hope to provide the tools and the understanding that you will need to attain optimal health and wellness. In a way, you can look upon obtaining health pretty much like having a baby. No one can do it for you!
Walther Meyer MD., CMD.
Nutrimed@tds.net
Most all of us have been told - at one time or another - to eat right!
If anyone has ever given you the right information on how to "Eat Right", I would be surprised. Since the 1980's The Dietary Guidelines for Americans have been the accepted standard for a good diet. The most recent 2005 edition of the guidelines came out this spring with much fanfare. For those of us who checked them out, since the first guidelines in 1980, (they have been updated every 5 years or so) there have been minimal changes in the nutritional advice that they give.
If the alarming increase in our epidemic of adult and childhood obesity and diabetes is any indication, it is apparent that the nutritional advice that we have been getting has been wrong. These epidemics have reached alarming proportions and demand a change in our personal understanding and action.
Hopefully this web site will help you to challenge and discard these failed Dietary Guidelines. They have done us a great disservice and I believe are one of the root causes of our current health care crisis.
The responsibilities for these guidelines have no place in the Unites States Department of Agriculture. Rather than being an instrument for public health, they have become a document of economic and political compromise for the department of Agricultures' constituencies.
Walther Meyer MD., CMD.
Nutrimed@tds.net
