DONATE to Help Fix the Dietary Guidelines
Friends and Colleagues,
We need your support!
Dr. Sarah Hallberg and I are reaching out to you to ask you to support a group called The Nutrition Coalition, a non-profit based in Washington, DC, which has the sole of aim of reforming the decades-old Dietary Guidelines for Americans so that they are evidence-based, i.e., based on rigorous clinical trial science.
That’s why we are asking for a donation. And now all gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar through the end of the year thanks to the backing of one very generous donor.
You can make an end-of-year gift, of $10, $25 or more easily and securely online here.
We need your support to educate policy makers, influencers and the public about the problems with the guidelines, so that people suffering from obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, among other nutrition-related diseases, get the sound nutritional advice that they need to become healthy.
The current guidelines have long been based upon weak science that has since been contradicted in large, government-funded clinical trials. Some of that original bad advice has been overturned: e.g., the caps on cholesterol were finally dropped in 2015.
These recommendations do not just lack a foundation in rigorous evidence. In some cases, they have been demonstrated to cause actual harm, particularly for those with metabolic diseases.
Will you make a tax-deductible gift of just $25 to reform the Guidelines? With our current match, your year-end gift goes twice as far, and we are that much closer to placing American nutrition policy on a firmer foundation and promoting healthy living for all Americans.
Although you may think that no one relies on the government for their dietary advice, the reality is that the Guidelines are taught to/by nearly all healthcare practitioners—dieticians, nutritionists, doctors—working on the front line with patients. The Guidelines reach you, your family and your colleagues.
That’s why we need the Nutrition Coalition, and why our accomplishments are so important:
In 2015, we proposed to the U.S. Congress that it mandate the first-ever outside peer-review of the Guidelines, by the National Academy of Medicine. Congress not only passed this mandate but also allocated $1 million for the study.
That National Academy study came out just recently, with very strong language about how the Guidelines “lack scientific rigor” and fail to use a state-of-the-art systematic review methodology.
Congressman Andy Harris wrote an op-ed on the Academy report, with the headline: “Mandate is clear: Flawed dietary guidelines process must be reformed.”
Americans follow the Guidelines, but their health has not improved. The process of drafting the Guidelines needs reform—but we need your help to support the sustained campaign this effort will require.
If you would like to DONATE to our worthy cause, so that ALL people have the chance to be healthy again, please CLICK HERE to make your tax-deductible donation!
Check out our website, along with our extremely strong Board of Directors and Scientific Council. We are launching with a serious team, and we aim for real reform.
Thank you!!
Nina Teicholz and Dr. Sarah Hallberg
The Nutrition Coalition
Note: The Nutrition Coalition does not accept funds from any interested (food/ag) industry.