Conflicts of interest are nothing new for dietetics associations, to the shame of many sincere and dedicated dieticians. An important report from Michele Simon shows massive problems with the Dietitians Association of Australia.
The FDA and the FTC won’t allow reasonable, science-based claims about foods and supplements, but they let mega-companies like Coke run wild. Action Alert!
Including everything you need to know to protect your health in the crossfire. Action Alert!
Science for sale! Researchers with ties to industry are paying big money to ensure that scientific independence is a thing of the past.
Today we reveal the thirty agribusiness front groups and industrial agriculture lobbyists that continue to fight the Tester amendment.
Remember when RFK Jr. told us one of his first priorities was getting rid of all those nasty food additives that were being self-affirmed without any transparency as “Generally Regarded as Safe” or GRAS—the pathway that determines which ingredients can legally be added to food? Well, a new Congressional bill sponsored by a Republican senator […]
A quiet revolution is happening in the food aisle—and oddly, it’s being met with resistance from the very voices we’d expect to cheer it. At the center of it all? M&M’s, synthetic food dyes, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Listen to the audio version of this article: THE TOPLINE In April, RFK Jr. announced an […]
Remember when Secretary Kennedy vowed last March to make American food safer and reform the Generally Regarded as Safe (GRAS) pathway for ingredients and additives? Democratic members of Congress have sponsored two bills in an attempt to reform the GRAS pathway. One of these bills is particularly problematic: if passed into law, it could threaten […]
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, recently renamed ‘metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease’ to remove the association with alcohol, has become endemic in Western societies. Yet it’s wholly preventable with the right nutrition and lifestyle education. In this article we look at the role that ultra-processed foods play in this potentially life-threatening disease. Action Alert! This article […]
The MAHA Commission’s new report names some of the culprits behind America’s childhood chronic disease epidemic—but will its cautious prescriptions leave the real cures stuck in the waiting room? Listen to the audio version of this article: THE TOPLINE The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission’s new report arrives with an ambitious promise: identify the […]