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Jan 29, 2018

Advertisements and Silencing Health Effects of Medication

Excellent write-up by our friends at HealthNewsReview.org on unnecessary scare tactics and the dangers of silencing the long-term health effects of medication. "This advertisement would be more balanced if it showed a Read More

Jun 30, 2017

Food Industry “Educational” Program: “Sugar is Healthy”

In this post, Russell Greene -- Director of Government Relations and Research at CrossFit Inc. -- masterfully dissects Kidnetic.com, a program to “promote healthy eating and active living" created by the International Read More

Apr 28, 2017

The Food Industry Has High Hopes for Trump’s Anti-Regulation Agenda

Uh-oh. "The food industry is moving to capitalize on the Trump administration's anti-regulation agenda by seeking to delay or do away with Obama-era rules governing the disclosure of calories, sugar, fiber and serving Read More

Mar 16, 2017

15 Health Organizations Publicly Support Philadelphia Soda Tax. Where’s AND?

"Fifteen health organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief Friday in hopes that the beverage industry’s appeal of a sugar tax will fall flat," American Heart Association News reports. Among the fifteen Read More

May 18, 2016

American Heart Association CEO Calls Out Big Soda

While the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics shies away from criticism of Big Food and Big Soda, other health organizations have been much less fearful. Yesterday, American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown publicly Read More

May 02, 2016

Researchers with Ties to Sweetener Industries Critique Added Sugar Limits

"Why it's important to consider the source" -- exhibit 5,207. In this review for the International Journal of Obesity, the authors claim that added sugar recommendations set forth by the American Heart Association (no Read More

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Farewell to Our Supporters

Dear DFPI Supporters, Since February of 2013, we at Dietitians For Professional Integrity have been a voice for uplifting the registered dietitian credential at a time when corporate influences - both overt and covert Read More

Highly Processed Foods Can Negatively Impact Health

Good read from New York Times on how highly processed foods (and the ingredients in many of them) can negatively impact health by creating an imbalance in the gut microbiome. This is the future of nutrition. The fact Read More

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