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Award-winning producer and filmmaker Michal Siewierski’s second full-length documentary
The Yoyo Effect will debut this summer. The vegan film will focus on the obesity epidemic and explore common misconceptions of weight loss and trending diets such as Paleo and Atkins. From science-based evidence to new disruptive ideas, Siewierski aims to provide viewers with long-term sustainable weight-loss strategies to improve their health. “[My goal is to] empower the viewer with information that can set them on a long-term healthy weight loss path through lifestyle change,” Siewierski told VegNews, “instead of the typical short term ‘yoyo diets.’” The film will promote a whole-foods, plant-based diet and follow Siewierski’s personal experience with weight loss. “There is a message for both the non-vegan and vegan crowds,” Siewierski said, “as obesity is also becoming common among vegans that focus their diets on processed and high-calorie density foods.” The documen
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The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates a group of 200,000 physicians issued a policy statement last week to remove disease-causing foods from hospital menus nationwide. “AMA hereby call on US hospitals to improve the health of patients, staff, and visitors by providing a variety of healthful food,” the AMA’s resolution states, “including plant-based meals and meals that are low in fat, sodium, and added sugars.” The statement further asks hospitals and staff to lead by example by “eliminating processed meats from menus, and providing and promoting healthful beverages.” Neal Barnard, MD, founder of 12,000-member medical association Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, spoke at AMA’s meeting and pointed out how effective the organization has been in removing cigarettes from medical facilities. “A generation ago,” Barnard said, “the AMA supported doctors who were working to get tobacco out of their hospitals. And that helped eve
Dairy has been a significant part of the USDA’s dietary guidelines for decades.
But dairy is not an uncontroversial category as part of government recommendations, especially when those recommendations have wide ramifications, as the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) do. In response, a group of doctors associated with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine have sued the USDA, claiming that the department’s push for dairy is not in line with current understanding of nutrition, and is instead designed to promote the American dairy industry.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is a nonprofit advocacy group focused on promoting plant-based diets and animal welfare neither of which are exactly extreme positions, but which explain some of the motivation for the lawsuit. Regardless, though, the presence of dairy in the DGA has been the subject of debate for a while now.
Physicians suing USDA claim latest dietary guidelines cater to meat, dairy industries, not health of Americans
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Eating a plant-based diet may help reduce risk of Type 2 diabetes, according to new study
A new study from Harvard s School of Public health indicates that there is an association between adherence to a predominantly plant-based diet and lower risk of Type 2 diabetes.
The United States Department of Agriculture is facing a federal lawsuit over the dietary guidelines it published last December.
Doctors Seth Ammerman, Donald Forrester and Heather Shenkman along with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine seek a court order requiring the USDA to retract portions of the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.