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New Federal Nutirition Guidelines Not Without Controversy

KETR | By John Mark Dempsey
Published February 1, 2016 at 8:36 AM CST
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U.S. Department of Agriculture

Hunt Regional Health CareRegistered Dietician Sally Rhodes reflects on the new 2015-2020 federal nutrition guidelines, which were recently released.  The guidelines recommend no more than 10 percent of daily calories come from sugar.  But some observers were disappointed that a warning against excessive consumption of red meat was taken out of the guidelines.

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John Mark Dempsey
John Mark Dempsey is the host of the public interest program The Blacklands Café from KETR News. Dempsey is also the play-by-play announcer for Commerce Tigers Football on 88.9 FM and on ketr.org.
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