NHMRC Draft Dietary Guidelines Released

[markB]

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has released draft dietary guidelines for public comment.

The draft can be seen at http://www.eatforhealth.gov.au/

[canberravegan]

I responded to the draft dietary guidelines. My document can be found here (14 pages plus references):

http://www.edocr.com/doc/30641/response-draft-australian-dietary-guidelines

The documents comprising the guidelines missed a number of things, such as the link between dairy intake and prostate cancer, and the link between heme iron intake (from meat) and heart disease. Also, some of the prescribed diets have saturated fat content which exceeds the recommended upper limit. My calculations are shown. Enjoy!