The expert committee reviewing the science for the next U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans is considering major changes to the protein food groups. An analysis of the last two public meetings of the expert committee, in September 2023 and January 2024, indicate a strong possibility that these groups with meat and dairy may be reduced or diluted by plant proteins, continuing a steady erosion of these categories over the past 20 years.
Sometimes, a well-timed email can make a real difference. For Michael Collins, age 53, that life-changing message arrived from his employer’s wellness initiative in October 2020. It was the Monday after his doctor had told him that he was “in trouble” and needed to get his weight and diabetes under control.
We write on behalf of the Nutrition Coalition to express our concerns about the current protocol criteria of the Nutrition Evidence Systematic Review (NESR) for the systematic review on dietary patterns and growth, body composition, and risk of obesity.
The House Appropriations report for 2024 includes the following language:
The Committee recognizes that the Dietary Guidelines for Americans is designed to include all Americans. Given the increase in chronic disease, the Committee directs USDA to include in the 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans a dietary pattern for the treatment of diet-related diseases, including obesity and diabetes, based exclusively on rigorous data.
We at the Nutrition Coalition would like to express our strong support for the "Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act" to allow schools to offer whole milk through the National School Lunch Program.
The Nutrition Coalition strongly supports Senator Chuck Grassley’s call for suspending the development of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans until the Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services (USDA-HHS) fully disclose all financial conflicts-of-interest (COI) on the appointed expert group that oversees the science for the guidelines, called the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC).
The Nutrition Coalition and other experts expressed surprise and disappointment in the recent disclosure of conflicts of interest (COI) for the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, by the Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services (USDA-HHS).
In February 2023, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposed an update to the School Nutrition Standards. Some of these proposals were misguided, but one was on the right track: a limit on added sugars to 10% of calories per meal, starting in 2027.
Urge the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee members to include a question on low-carbohydrate diets and the health outcomes weight loss and blood sugar control as part of the set of scientific questions to be considered for the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Congress has spent seven years and 2 million dollars trying to improve the rigor and transparency of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), our nation’s top nutrition policy. With Congressional funds, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) in 2017 conducted the first-ever outside peer-review of the guidelines process and issued 11 recommendations.
