The Hidden Costs of Our Dietary Guidelines
23rd September 2024
Whatever your opinion of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., he’s the first national candidate to platform the issue of chronic disease in America. To address this crisis, for children and adults alike, our response should be bipartisan.
As former members of the expert committee that oversees the science for the U.S. Dietary Guidelines, we can tell you that these chronic diseases are primarily driven by poor diet, and our guidelines are part of the problem.
At 7:30 a.m. tomorrow, millions of schoolchildren will be filling their cafeteria trays with orange juice, sugary cereals?and donuts. Administrators encourage the kids to fill up, contending the meal will fuel their day.
This isn’t dystopian fiction — it’s breakfast in 2024 America, brought to you by the guidelines published every five years?by the departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Agriculture.
Moral: Government screws up everything it touches.
Solution: Don’t let the government stick its nose into everything.
Just kidding! Actual solution: Enter into a knock-down-drag-out political fight over who gets to determine what actual content the government’s regulations reflect.