Proposed Dietary Guidelines Sharply Debated

Laura Dolson from About.com describes a special article published today in the journal Nutrition that sharply criticizes the recent Report of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC). The authors argue the Report fails to conform to the standards of evidence-based medicine, despite its claimed reliance on a newly created USDA Nutrition Evidence Library. The authors call the DGAC to task for failing to consider recent scientific results while at the same time further confusing the American public. Read more...