The nation’s senior scientific body recently released a new report raising serious questions about the “scientific rigor” of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. This report confirms what many in government have suspected for years and is the reason why Congress mandated this report in the first place: our nation’s top nutrition policy is not based on sound science.

Federal dietary guidelines are based on weak science. These recommendations, which are developed by nutritionists who champion widely accepted but increasingly questionable advice, have a huge impact on how everyone eats. Given the scale of the diabetes epidemic, it's time to reform the process that produces our nation's nutritional guidelines.

We need your support to educate policy makers, influencers and the public about the problems with the guidelines, so that people suffering from obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, among other nutrition-related diseases, get the sound nutritional advice that they need to become healthy.

The Nutrition Coalition applauded a report, released today by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) on the process used to develop the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA).

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) began in August the first-ever major peer review of the the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) since they were launched more than 35 years ago. Congress, mandated this review in large part to see if alternative solutions and approaches to combating these nutrition-related diseases might be found.

The Nutrition Coalition is holding a press conference on Tuesday, April 5th, 2:00—3:00 pm, at the National Press Club, Murrow Room, to address: Why the Dietary Guidelines Are Not Improving American Health: The Evidence Excluded from the National Food Policy Conference. 

Nutrition Coalition members were quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post, and elsewhere in response to the release of new Dietary Guidelines. “I think that the guidelines should reflect the uncertainty of the science,” says Teicholz. “Maybe they should inform and be more humble in what they advise."

Washington—Due to concerns that the Dietary Guidelines for America (DGAs) have failed to improve health in America, Congress mandated the first-ever peer review of the DGAs, by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), as part of the fiscal year 2016 Omnibus Appropriations bill. To ensure the review is conducted in a timely manner, Congress appropriated $1 million.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today The Nutrition Coalition (TNC) announced the appointment of nutrition expert Sarah Hallberg, DO, Medical Director and Founder, Indiana University Health Arnett Medical Weight Loss Program, as Chair of the Coalition’s newly formalized Science Advisory Council.