Nutrients and this is example is cholesterol. When i graduated law school in early 70s and early 80s, cholesterol was a demon we were told you have eat foods low in colest cholesterol and egg took a big hit and egg are a cheap source of income in protein for lowincome people. And now in the new dietary guidelines for american that is will go 2015 to 2020 cholesterol is not a concern. This is covered in the news media. And it took about 2030 years but the Nutrition Community has changed its mind on cholesterol. The u. S. Dietary guidelines say cholesterol in foods is no longer a consume and we can go ahead and eat eggs again. This time it seems to be added sugar poses the same questions, is that the best approach to changing culture, changing consumer demand for healthier foods . Now, i want to turn off the slides. Okay. Next point is that the u. S. Dietary guidelines when it talks about added sugars, it says that a dietary pattern that is low in added sugars and has various levels of n
Trail and headed toward the candidate debate. Three are scheduled. Monday september 26, sunday october 9, and wednesday octob october 1 19. All will start at 9 p. M. Eastern and you can watch them on csp cspan. Tonight on the communicators we visited a Technology Show on capitol hill and spoke with several developers at start up Technology Companies including the top of the policy issues they would like to discuss with members of congress. It is an excellent year and why this committee nation. You are looking at 10 times, 15 times the frequencies of cellular operations. The biggest advantage of that, it gives you more bandwidth. Spin watch the communicators tonight on cspan2. Did you miss any of the republican or Democratic National conventions . You can go back and watch every moment, cspan. Org to find every speech from both conventions and watch ondemand whenever you want. At the top of the cspan. Org homepage click on it at the democratic or republican tension where youll find bigg
The Research Evidence does show us that there is a Clear Association between access to healthy food, particularly fruits and vegetables, and Better Health outcomes such as lower rates of all of the things that dr. Angel laid out earlier today. So i could not come to Georgetown Law Center and not cite professor lawrence gostin. He is cited here, when we were looking at the universe of policies that can address fruit and vegetable consumption its vast. Many things we have talked about today can be influenced by Public Policy. To organize our thinking we used this framework to think about the different strategies and put them into some context. We also looked at the different settings where its possible to implement policy related to increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables, those settings very broadly are government settings, school settings, which we just mentioned as an important kind of access point. Early childhood settings, retail settings, work sites and generally community