First Ever Birth-24 Month Dietary Guidelines: Deliberations and Complications
USDA-HHS are Issuing the First-Ever Guidelines for the Birth-24 months Population: Is This a Good Idea?
Dietary Guidelines Are Only for Healthy Americans…A Surprise from the 2020 Guidelines’ Kick-off Meeting
The advisory committee appointed to oversee the science for the next set of Dietary Guidelines, in 2020 held its inaugural meeting last month—with some startling surprises. Most extraordinary was the government’s assertion that at a time when 60% of the population is afflicted with some kind of nutrition-related disease, the Guidelines will continue to be a policy for healthy Americans only.
Who's On The Guidelines Committee
Who is on the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Committee and What Are Their Conflicts of Interest
Secretary Perdue: Your Leadership Urgently Needed on Advisory Committee for Next Dietary Guidelines
By Dr. Dawn Lemanne, Dr. Mark Cucuzzella, and Dr. Jake Kushner
We have written an urgent letter to Sonny Perdue, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and we hope that you will consider joining us.
USDA to bring more diversity, fresh views to Guidelines committee
The Nutrition Coalition applauds a recent move by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), following advice by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), to ensure a greater diversity of viewpoints on the expert panel that advises Americans on what to eat. This reform is long overdue.
Lesson for the Next Dietary Guidelines Committee: We Need A Diversity of Opinion
An analysis of the last advisory committee to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, our nation’s top nutrition policy, reveals little diversity of opinion on key dietary issues among the committee’s 14 members.
Government Rejects Most of National Academies’ Recs for Improving the Dietary Guidelines’ Advisory Committee
Earlier this month, the agencies responsible for the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans quietly dismissed improvements suggested by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, to increase transparency of the DGA Advisory Committee and manage member biases.