Dietary Guidelines & Recommendations

New U.S. Dietary Guidelines Reject Recommendation to Cut Sugar, Alcohol Intake Limit (Wall Street Journal, December 29, 2021)
US nutritionists call for dietary guideline limits on saturated fat intake to be lifted (British Medical Journal, October 29, 2020)
Big, fat disappointment: Dietary guidelines are broken, and government again failed to fix them (Washington Examiner, July 20, 2020)
Preliminary report on dietary guidelines emphasizes need for healthy eating habits (American Heart Association, July 20, 2020)
New U.S. dietary guideline recommendations take aim at sugar for children and adults (Washington Post, July 11, 2020)
Commentary: Our Dietary Guidelines for Americans must address chronic health issues (Chicago Tribune, July 10, 2020
Scientific Panel on New Dietary Guidelines Draws Criticism From Health Advocates (NYT, June 17, 2020)
Dietary Guidelines Experts Again Condemn Saturated Fats, Ignore Rigorous Evidence (Nutrition Coalition, June 1, 2020)
A Low-Carb Strategy for Fighting the Pandemic’s Toll (Wall Street Journal, May 31, 2020)
USDA Excluding Virtually all Low-Carb Studies (Low-Carb Action Network, May 13, 2020)
(Journal) Food and soft drink industry has too much influence over US dietary guidelines, report says (BMJ, April 24, 2020)
Leading Scientists Agree: Current Limits on Saturated Fats No Longer Justified (Nutriton Coalition, February 25, 2020)
Carbohydrates and conflicts: U.S. nutrition panel to hold rare hearing in Houston (Houston Chronicle, January 20, 2020)
Trump Targets Michelle Obama’s School Nutrition Guidelines on Her Birthday (January 17, 2020)
Prevalence of Childhood Obesity in the United States (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention)
Mark Cucuzzella: Federal nutrition ‘experts’ serve up dangerous dietary advice (Sun Journal, January 15, 2020)
(Journal) Backlash Over Meat Dietary Recommendations Raises Questions About Corporate Ties to Nutrition Scientists (JAMA, January 15, 2020)
Another Voice: Beware the government's not-so-low-carb plan (The Buffalo News, January 1, 2020)
Federally Funded Health Researchers Disclose at Least $188 Million in Conflicts of Interest. Can You Trust Their Findings? (ProPublica, December 6, 2019)
Many Public Universities Refuse to Reveal Professors’ Conflicts of Interest (Chronicle of Higher Education, December 6, 2019)
Why It Is So Hard to Figure Out What to Eat (New York Times, November 13, 2019)
Discrepancies in the Registries of Diet vs Drug Trials (JAMA, November 13, 2019)
What Decades of (Sometimes Dodgy) Dietary Advice Made Us Do (Bloomberg, November 10, 2019)
Article: US government doesn’t know or care about optimal nutrition (Diet Doctor, November 7, 2019)
How Washington keeps America sick and fat (Politico, November 4, 2019)
Get Involved in the Guidelines' Process. Make a Comment or Attend a Meeting (Nutrition Coalition, October 25, 2019)
Is saturated fat bad for your heart? Canada’s Food Guide says so. Here’s what the science says (Star, September 24, 2019)
How the Trump administration limited the scope of the USDA’s 2020 dietary guidelines (Washington Post, August 30, 2019)
Industry, Plant-Based Advocates Dominate Comments at Guidelines’ Meeting (Nutrition Coalition, August 1, 2019)
Canada’s new dietary advice is to avoid sugar substitutes. Will the US follow suit? (Washington Post, May 10, 2019)
Diets are not one-size-fits-all. So why do we treat dietary guidelines that way? (Washington Post, May 2, 2019)
Did the government’s dietary guidelines help make us fat? (Washington Post, February 25, 2019)
(Journal) The Challenge of Reforming Nutritional Epidemiologic Research (JAMA, September 11, 2018)
CANADA'S FOOD GUIDE (Government of Canada)
DIETARY GUIDELINES FOR AMERICANS (US Dept of Agriculture)