The Nutrition Coalition (TNC) has worked to encourage that the US Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) be evidence based and inclusive of all Americans. With the 9th iteration of the DGA released today, TNC remains concerned that this highly influential policy document addresses only a minority of Americans, excluding the 60% of the population, according to the CDC, diagnosed with one or more diet-related chronic disease.

The Nutrition Coalition (TNC) submitted its public comments to the USDA regarding the final expert report by the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. The 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, due out at the end of this year, will be based on this report.

Following today’s release of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee’s (DGAC) expert report, which will serve as the underpinning for the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), the Nutrition Coalition, a non-profit group that aims to bring rigorous science to nutrition policy, urged the agencies overseeing the process, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services (USDA-HHS), to make important changes ahead of the release of the Guidelines in order to redress the significant problems with the expert report.

Leading Scientists, Including Former Members of USDA Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committees, Publish State-of-the-Art Review Finding Current Government Caps on Saturated Fats are No Longer Justified. Yet 2020 Dietary Guidelines Committee Insists Cap Should Stay Firmly in Place.

The draft report presented at the final meeting of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) on June 17 was yet another disappointment in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) process. Despite numerous groups in recent weeks expressing profound concerns about the narrow scope of the Guidelines—including only healthy people—as well as a myriad of ways the process lacks scientific rigor and transparency, the DGAC made no attempt to address these issues.

Open Letter Requests Expert Report Delay to Ensure Adequate Time for a Thorough Investigation of Expert Committee Member(s)’ Allegations

This week, the USDA released its draft conclusions for the 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), and the cap on saturated fats look likely to stay firmly in place, . The evidence linking saturated fats to heart disease was judged to be “strong,” not only for adults, but also, for the first time, children. These were the conclusions of the Subcommittee on Dietary Fats and Seafood, part of the larger DGA Advisory Committee.

Federal dietary guidelines don’t reflect the evidence that eating fewer carbohydrates can help to reduce obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

As we deliberate about the road to reopening society and search for drugs that could improve outcomes for the coronavirus, we should not miss the opportunity to talk about the conditions that have made Americans especially vulnerable to this pandemic: our poor state of health.

In response to a new CDC report showing that 90% of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the U.S. are patients with one or more underlying conditions, today the Nutrition Coalition, a group that aims to bring rigorous science to nutrition policy, called for reforms to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans—America’s official nutrition policy—to help improve metabolic health, which could better protect at-risk Americans from viruses including COVID-19.