Americans are sicker than ever. It’s time for dietary guidelines based on the best science.
Dear Supporter,
As a conscious consumer who takes control of your health, you may give little thought, much less weight, to the federal Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
It’s time you did. It’s time we all do.
The dietary guidelines handed down by the federal government dictate how hundreds of millions of your tax dollars are allocated for nutrition programs that serve vulnerable children, seniors and veterans—the very people whose poor health increased their risk of getting, or dying from, COVID-19.
TAKE ACTION: Tell Members of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee: Americans deserve dietary guidelines based on the latest, most rigorous independent science.
Every five years, the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Agriculture (USDA) hand down an updated version of the federal Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
And every five years, Big Food and Big Pharma lobbyists line up to try to influence those guidelines—either directly, or indirectly through groups pretending to look out for you.
One of those “influencers” is the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
CSPI runs a pro-GMO Biotechnology Project with close ties to the Gates Foundation-funded Cornell Alliance for Science.
So it’s no surprise the group didn’t recommend that the new dietary guidelines advise Americans to eat organic, in order to avoid exposure to toxic pesticides.
CSPI also recommended that the new guidelines promote low-fat dairy and unsaturated fats—even though, as outlined by the Nutrition Coalition, those recommendations don’t reflect the latest science.
Ignoring the latest science on nutrition is bad enough. But CSPI, which has a history of getting it wrong on nutrition, is now also attacking Mercola.com, the world’s largest natural health website, for publishing articles about natural health strategies for staying healthy during a pandemic.
COVID-19 laid bare just how unhealthy Americans are, how much the typical American’s diet contributes to poor health, and how poor health makes us more susceptible to the coronavirus
We can’t afford another round of Dietary Guidelines for Americans that aren’t based on rigorous, independent science.
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee has completed its report. Next, the U.S. House Appropriations Committee has to decide to either fund the guidelines as submitted by the committee, or tie funding to stipulated changes.
The committee may also choose to fund an outside report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to provide more oversight to the Guidelines.
TAKE ACTION: Tell Members of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee: Americans deserve dietary guidelines based on the latest, most rigorous independent science.
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