Erin Allman-Updike

There have always been concerns about industry ties.

And there has always been a question of, like, how do these dietary guidelines committee recommendations actually get turned into the DGA?

And so what's kind of interesting is that in some ways, the way that they went about this was more transparent.

Yeah.

We ignored over 30 out of 50 of their recommendations.

And we mostly ignored another 15 of them.

And there's like five or six that we took.

Right.

So that part was more explicit.

We still don't know who actually wrote any of these guidelines.

That's still a black box.

Right.

But there was also an entirely separate scientific advisory committee that RFK made.

And he gave them a couple of months instead of a couple of years to do a so-called rapid review of the evidence.

And then he had his own folks, again, Black Box, take those scientific rapid reviews and make the actual guidance from it.

Yeah.

Right.

And the scientific advisors that wrote these scientific parts of the report also had tons of industry ties, every single one almost.

So that part is really no different, even though they're trying to frame it as this is free from bias, etc.,

They also are very explicit in these guidelines that one of the things they really did not like about the previous guidelines is that they had the audacity to take into account things like health equity, ethnicity, culture, socioeconomic status, race.