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Federal Dietary Guidelines

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Food

'MyPlate,' the USDA's 'Food Pyramid' Replacement, Is Also a Dud

The federal government continues to be very bad at telling people what and how to eat.

Baylen Linnekin | 12.10.2022 8:30 AM

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FDA

The FDA Wants To Take Your Salt Away

Most Americans are not consuming excessive amounts of sodium.

Ronald Bailey | 10.13.2021 5:10 PM

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Federal Dietary Guidelines

The Uproar Over New Federal Dietary Guidelines Is a Lot of Hot Air

Refusing to recommend policy based on bad science isn't unscientific.

Baylen Linnekin | 1.2.2021 8:30 AM

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Reason Roundup

The Government Isn't About To Tell You To Stop Drinking Now

Plus: Operation Warp Speed is off to a slow start, Trump's school choice order, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.30.2020 9:43 AM

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Occupational Licensing

A Mississippi Woman Gave Diet Advice Without a License. The State Threatened To Throw Her in Jail.

Mississippi has a reputation for being one of the most obese states in the nation, as well as having one of America's highest incarceration rates. Neither will be improved by treating unlicensed dieticians like serious criminals.

Eric Boehm | 3.6.2020 9:50 AM

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Nutrition

Most Nutrition Research Is Bunk

Implausible estimates of benefits or risks associated with diet reflect almost exclusively the magnitude of nutrition researchers' cumulative biases.

Ronald Bailey | 9.6.2018 9:45 AM

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Reasontv

How Big Government Backed Bad Science and Made Americans Fat

Q&A with journalist Nina Teicholz

Alexis Garcia | 5.3.2018 3:20 PM

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Nutrition

You Don't Have to Listen to the Government to Eat the Foods You Like.

Bad Food Bible author Aaron Carroll on flawed government nutrition guidelines, diet-science nihilism, and why you shouldn't give in to restrictive food moralism.

Peter Suderman | 11.21.2017 12:03 PM

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Nutrition

More Evidence That Everything the Government Teaches Us About Eating Is Wrong

Global study goes against the grain on fats, fruits, and dietary dogma

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.30.2017 12:38 PM

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Science

Go Ahead, Put Salt on Your Food

Ignore the feds' bad advice on diet and nutrition.

Ronald Bailey | 7.1.2017 8:41 PM

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Epidemiology

Eat More Peppers, Live Longer; Eat More Grilled Meat, Die Sooner

Exploring the absurdities of modern nutritional epidemiology.

Ronald Bailey | 1.25.2017 2:45 PM

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Sugar

Sugar Wars: Junk Food, Junk Science, or Both?

Big Sugar and the politicization of science

Ronald Bailey | 12.20.2016 5:00 PM

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Food Policy

Bad Food Data and Science Still Make for Bad Food Policy

USDA's diet guidelines are a mess because the information it uses is suspect.

Baylen Linnekin | 10.29.2016 8:00 AM

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Policy

Runaway Farm Subsidies and Diet Guideline Fights: Federal Food Policy Is a Mess

Two recent examples illustrate deep and broad problems.

Baylen Linnekin | 4.16.2016 8:00 AM

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Fat

Eating Red Meat, Cheese, Butter, Pork and Cream Is Not a Death Sentence After All

Review of saturated fat studies "do not provide support for the traditional diet heart hypothesis."

Ronald Bailey | 4.13.2016 2:31 PM

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Nutrition

Federal Dietary Policies Are an Unsteady Diet of Nothing

Follow the new guidelines at your own peril.

Baylen Linnekin | 1.9.2016 8:00 AM

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