Significant ties to the food and pharmaceutical industry by members of the government agency tasked with establishing the dietary choices of hundreds of millions of school children, hospital patients, and countless others have raised concerns over whether the American diet has been corrupted.
According to a study authored by six researchers, including Teicholz, and funded in part by the Nutrition Coalition, 95 percent of the members of the 2020 expert committee for the Dietary Guidelines Advisory panel—a group of 20 people who establish national nutrition programs, standards, and education on what constitutes a healthy diet—had conflicts of interest with the food or pharmaceutical industries.
