What the innocent public should know

That Big Food controls the Food and Nutrition Board (FNB). The FNB is part of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which is part of the National Academy of Science and is in charge of updating the nutritional recommendation for the country every 5 years. Theirs last recommendation was issued in September 2002: To rise up our allowed caloric intake by:

• fat up to 35 %
• added sugar up to 25 %
• protein up to 35 %.

*Added sugars are those incorporated in food and beverage during preparation like in soft drinks, candy, pastries and others sweets.

This is an increase of 5 % in our intake of calories from fat from the previous recommendation. This is the highest number ever mentioned by any responsible authority. The most shocking figure is the upper limit for protein: 35%. That will bring millions of people to sickness. See Discoveries for a better understanding of why such a recommendation is criminal.

What they don’t tell you:

• Only 5-6 % Dietary Protein is required to replace the proteins than we loose regularly excreted by the body.
• The recommendations for the past fifty years were 9-10 % (RDA).
• In general Americans exceed this amount in a range of 11 to 21 % which directly results in an epidemic of obesity, coronary disease and cancer. ₍₂₎

• Very few people consume more than 21 % protein. Generally, bodybuilders or some kamikaze on a fad diet.

Why would the Food and Nutrition Board recommend such an insane amount of protein and fat to the population?

The chairman of this the FNB, soon after the publication of this report, left for a better paying position as a Senior Executive for a large food corporation.

He was an important consultant to major dairy related companies :National Dairy Council, Mead Johnson Nutritional, Nestle company and a Dannon affiliate.

He was also, simultaneously, Chair of the Dietary Guidelines Committee in charge of the establishment of the so called Food Guide Pyramid, affecting millions of us.

His personal financial interest with Big Food was never revealed to the public.

Consequences

“This important recommendation slipped trough the panel review but was made the first sentence of the report.

Six of the eleven committee members had direct ties to the Dairy Industry. ₍₂₎

Nobody bothered respecting the law; (Chaitowiits S. Court Rules against USDA secrecy and failure to disclose conflict of interest)

_{(1) National Academy of Sciences Press Release. ” Report offers new eating and physical activity targets to reduce chronic disease risks ” sept 5 2002 Washington DC}

_{(2) T Collin Campbell, PHD in China Study page 308}

What nobody had dared to tell you:

Even though scientists working for the Government are not allowed to receive personal compensation from private sectors, Private academics can receive all they can get or grab and wear several hats at the same time, so to speak.

The National Board of Nutrition is responsible for the National guidelines on Nutrition.

A Few Sponsors of the Food Nutrition Board:

• The International Life Science Institute is the front façade for about fifty Food, supplement, and drug companies. The President of LSI is Dr Barry L. Zoumas who was the vice president of Hershey Foods Corp and also involved with Cocoa, Chocolate and Confectionery Research at Penn State. This can show you the connection between Big Food and the FNB.
• The Dannon Institute is also a sponsor of the FNB.

Conclusions:

All the evidence presented by several Meta-Analysis in the last 20 years are linking excess protein intake to the painful, deadly illnesses which afflict millions of innocent victims in our society.

The Former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell wrote that growing conflicts of interest are tainting science: “When the boundaries between industry and academic medicine become as blurred as they are now.”

_{Dr. Marcia Angell “Is Academic Medicine for Sale?” New England Journal of Medicine}

More reading for skeptics

Cynthia Crossen, a staffer for the Wall Street Journal in 1996, published “Tainted Truth: The Manipulation of Fact in America,” a book about the widespread practice of lying with statistics

What they don’t want to tell you : Nutrition is a crime

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