When the job of recommending dietary guidelines occurred during the pandemic, the task went almost unnoticed, but so did the conflicts of interest that existed among the 20 people who
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If you want to see a lot of people become unhinged, try floating this: why not include meat alternatives such as plant-based burgers to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans
The 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee has submitted its 845-page “Scientific Report” to the Secretaries of the U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS).
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Sarah Reinhardt, the lead food systems and health analyst for the Food & Environment program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, says she knows how the federal 2020 Dietary Guidelines
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Anyone who wants to get a toe in the quinquennial task of writing dietary guidelines for the
