Those who have followed this year’s debate over the government’s forthcoming revision of dietary guidelines might be forgiven for thinking that wherever there are four nutrition experts gathered together, there will be at least five opinions.
Ever since the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee made their recommendations public in February of this year, there’s been no shortage of attacks, controversies, and even praise. (The 2015 recommendations received 15 times more comments than in 2010.) And this week, even Congress got involved by calling for a comprehensive — and expensive, at about $1 million — review of the process for developing the dietary guidelines.
