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Bettina Elias-Siegel

May 13, 2016

Success! McDonald’s Pulls the Plug on “Educational Documentary”

Congratulations to friend-to-Dietitians For Professional Integrity Bettina Elias Siegel of The Lunch Tray on playing an important role in getting McDonald's "education" (AKA: free marketing) out of schools. Elias Read More

Mar 29, 2016

The Trouble with Free McDonald’s Breakfast at Public Schools

In today's The Lunch Tray post, Bettina Elias Siegel provides a very well-reasoned viewpoint on why McDonald's offering free breakfast at public schools throughout Houston on standardized testing days is Read More

Oct 30, 2015

More on McDonald’s “Educational” Documentary for Middle and High School Students

Two weeks ago, we shared a post by Bettina Elias Siegel in which she broke the news about 540 Meals, a documentary based on an experiment conducted in 2013 and 2014 by John Cisna, an Iowa high school science teacher who Read More

Oct 16, 2015

McDonald’s Markets to Teens, Calls it “Education”

Earlier this year, we shared the good news that the California Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics chapter removed McDonald's as a gold sponsor this year (while a great development, several other state-level AND chapters Read More

Dec 08, 2014

2014: A ‘Watershed’ Year for Food Politics?

As 2014 wraps up, Dana Woldow of San Francisco alternative newspaper Beyond Chron asked various experts -- including Dr. Marion Nestle, Michele Simon, Bettina Siegel, and Chef Ann Cooper -- if this was a watershed year Read More

Jul 08, 2014

Why We Must Always Ask: “Who Paid for This Study?”

Another day, another round of "connect the sponsorship funding dots." First up, from Dr. Marion Nestle's Food Politics blog: "Over the July 4th weekend, a reader sent a link to a paper about to be published in the 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

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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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