U.S. group shaping nutrition policy earned millions from junk food makers

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New documents show that the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics invested in food stocks and accepted donations from junk food, sugar and soda makers, even as it trained the dietitians who teach us how to eat

 

Few institutions have as much influence on the public’s eating habits as the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, which helps shape national food policy and trains thousands of dietitians who help people decide what to eat.

 

But newly released documents show that the academy has a long history of financial ties to big food companies, including many that sell and market ultra-processed foods that have been linked to obesity, Type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases.

 

The documents, described in a report published on Monday in Public Health Nutrition, a peer reviewed journal, include thousands of pages of the academy’s financial records, tax returns and internal emails. They show that between 2011 and 2017, the organization took more than $4 million in donations from food companies and industry groups, including some of the world’s largest producers of soda, sugar, candy and ultra-processed foods, such as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Hershey, Kellogg’s, and Conagra.

 

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/10/24/nutrition-academy-processed-food-company-donations/

 

 

[Bluespunk]

No matter how low the bar is set for hypocrisy and deceit, there is always some greedy piece of fecal matter who is prepared to limbo beneath it.  

[Chomper Higgot]

No surprises at all.

 

For too long now we were warned the processed food industry where copying the successful tactics of the tobacco industry, and yet here we are.

 

 

Now all we need is a few shills to come along and regurgitate the misinformation they’ve been drop fed.