After what seems like a very long hiatus, I’m back at it. I
haven’t abandoned you my Kid Friendly Organic Life people! In fact, one of my
New Year’s resolution is to get back to blogging regularly here.
Honest confession – it’s not just that I’ve missed you (I
have! I have!), but also my jeans are getting a little tight and there’s just a
bit too much white sugar creeping back into my world. My excuses are long and
layered, but they amount to nothing more than distraction and laziness
.
I have discovered that I write about what I most care about,
and lately that has been rescue dogs, fiction writing, and my own navel. Not
that those are bad things, but it’s time to turn back to my health. I’m turning
50 this year which is a shock to me. Instead of running from that fact, I’m
embracing it and that means getting serious about staying healthy.
We should all be serious about our health. There’s much too
much taking-it-for-granted-until-it’s-too-late happening. In honor of that, I
thought I’d tackle the NEW nutrition guidelines that have been behind a flurry
of redundant filler articles turning up in every news outlet in town
.
Dietary Guidelines for
Americans is published every 5 years for health professionals in light of
the latest and greatest nutrition science. This momentous occurrence just occurred
as the 2015-2020 dietary guidelines were published this past fall. If you want
to read it in full (it’s long and has many, many tables and appendixes, but it’s
very clearly laid out and not too governmenty) click here.
For the rest of us normal people, here’s the shortened
version of the guidelines:
