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How have the new USDA Dietary Guidelines which seem to promote several sources of saturated fat (i.e., full fat dairy products, butter, red meat) changed how you approach dietary advice with your patients?

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Primary Care · Albert Einstein College of Medicine

It has not changed my recommendations at all. I still recommend a whole-food, plant-predominant eating pattern, which has been shown to improve health across a variety of chronic conditions and often can be used to treat, prevent, and sometimes reverse chronic disease. However, the new guidelines do...

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