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LINK USDA 2020 dietary guidelines: Trump administration limits the scope of the science - The Washington Post

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"The Trump administration is limiting scientific input to the 2020 dietary guidelines, raising concerns among nutrition advocates and independent experts about industry influence over healthy eating recommendations for all Americans.

For the first time, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture, which oversee the committee giving recommendations for the guidelines, have predetermined the topics that will be addressed. They have narrowed the research that can be used only to studies vetted by agency officials, potentially leaving key studies out of the mix.

The 80 questions the committee has been asked to answer do not cover several pressing issues the panel explored five years ago. This includes the consumption of red and processed meat, as well as the dramatic proliferation of ultraprocessed foods, which account for a growing percentage of calories consumed by Americans. Nor will the committee explore appropriate sodium levels for different populations.

A wide range of experts say these are among the most critical questions as the nation faces an epidemic of lifestyle diseases such as atherosclerosis, heart disease, stroke, obesity and Type 2 diabetes. They also represent the issues that large food companies find most objectionable because they would probably cast high-sodium, high-sugar, high-saturated fat and highly processed foods in a poor light."

jerry99 8 Aug 30
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Destructive asshole

bobwjr Level 10 Aug 31, 2019
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I see Bic Macs and KFC ad raised by Trump as new school lunches.

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Considering the evidence of failed efforts to produce effective guidelines in the past few decades, I'm glad the govt tried a new tack, that being said, it still seems like excluding information instead of looking at more data, is a really stupid plan.

This administration is consistently anti-science.

@jerry99 inagree with you, I just thinkmdietary guidelines are a uniquely bad example, because they are all about th3 misapplication of science. But, at least they weren't just govt sponsored marketing for existing products that we already known to be less healthy

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