Current dietary guidelines are not based on rigorous science. This has to change, and the time to do it is now.
Can we trust anything we think we know about nutrition?
What if our dietary recommendations are based on bad science?
What if one reason Americans are getting ever fatter is because we’re actually eating what we’ve been told to eat?
At the Nutrition Science Initiative, our goal is to get reliable answers to these questions and one more that is absolutely fundamental to our well-being:
What is a healthy diet and how do the foods I eat contribute to my health and longevity?
These questions are simply too important — too critical to both our quality of life and our economy — to allow them to be answered by anything other than the most rigorous and uncompromising inquiry. We all want to be healthy, and health is within our reach. We must engage, develop new research standards, and fuel this change.
We invite you to join us in this revolutionary initiative and change the world.
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The foundation of our dietary guidance rests on inconclusive science, and may be incorrect as a result of this
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Despite following current dietary recommendations – for example, reducing fat intake – Americans are getting more and more obese
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Americans make up a disproportionate amount of worldwide obesity
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Obesity plays a major role in the development of many diseases, often through the development of metabolic syndrome
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The death toll of obesity-related diseases is significant
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It is not clear how long our economy can continue to support the disproportionate growth in health care spending that is at least partially driven by this problem
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The leading organizations are not prioritizing obesity and nutrition research, perhaps because they believe the solution is obvious – eat less and exercise more
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