ahs13 adele hite - the real paleo challenge: how a fad on the fringe can become a force for change
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Adele's AHS13 talk, The Real Paleo Challenge: How a Fad on the Fringe Can Become a Force for Change, may be viewed on our youtube channel: http://youtu.be/l1r8yF02oc8 For complete schedule, bios, abstracts, please see our website: http://www.ancestralhealth.org/post/ahs13-detailed-scheduleTRANSCRIPT
The Real Paleo Challenge: How a Fad on the Fringe Can Become a Force for
Change
Adele Hite, MPH RD MATPhD student
NC State University
Science ≠ Policy
Policy ≠ Science
Policy change
Cultural
change
Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs
1977 Dietary Goals: A cultural shift becomes policy
energy balance
meateggs
butter full-fat dairy
blood lipids
endocrinological and/or energy
balance
Neolithic foods
causes obesity
cause chronic disease
Low-fat, low-calorie Paleo
Nutrition: Stuck in a limited past
Public health message?
AVOID
“The sun revolves around the earth.”
“The earth revolves around the sun”
grains and cerealspeanuts and soy
any dairy
Meet the new boss.Same as the old boss.
Current nutrition
policies are barriers to
growth of local food systems.
Current nutrition policies discriminate
Ancestral Health Framework: It’s complicated
genetics
environment
EvolutionAnthropologyMicrobiome
Systems biologyEpigeneticsGenomics
From “fad” to “force for change”
1) Grow up2) Reach out3) Dig in
Fun with Venn Diagrams
Ancestral Health
Paleo
Reduced-carbohydrate
Vegetarian
Vegan Atkins
GROW UP: Body Size ≠ Health
GROW UP: Body Size ≠ Health
GROW UP: Food ≠ Nutrition
community
tradition
GROW UP: Food ≠ Nutrition
GROW UP: Food ≠ Medicine
GROW UP: Ditch the Nostalgia
GROW UP: Skip the Food Rules
GROW UP: Move Past Politics of Responsibility
GROW UP: Avoid Reliance on Limited Science
Known (possibly incorrect)
GROW UP: Avoid Reliance on Limited Science
Courtesy: Chris Masterjohn
Imaginable, but untestable
Unimaginable
Testable, but not yet
imagined
Under investigation
GROW UP: One Diet Will NOT Rule Them All
DIG IN: Voting with your fork is not enough
DIG IN: The Story We Enact
DIG IN: Feed the hungry protein food!
Farm to Family Initiatives
REACH OUT: Get Past Confirmation Bias
REACH OUT: Everyone is a future ally
REACH OUT: Health at Every Size
• Accepting and respecting the natural diversity of body sizes and shapes.
• Eating in a flexible manner that values pleasure and honors internal cues of hunger, satiety, and appetite.
• Finding the joy in moving one’s body and becoming more physically vital.
REACH OUT: Invest in Healthy Food Project
Make federal policy work for, not against, farmers who want to grow healthy food, specifically fruits and vegetables.
Make healthy locally-grown food more available and affordable to consumers.
Throw a better party . . .
Thank you for the inspiration:
Laura Schoenfeld @ Ancestralize Me!Beth Mazur @ Weight MavenMelissa McEwan @ Hunt Gather LoveRobert Patterson @ Michael Rose’s 55Chris Masterjohn @ The Daily LipidDoug Imig – The Urban Child InstituteAndrew Abrahams - Long Dream FarmMichael Ostrolenk – The Transpartisan Center