Dissecting The Dietary Guidelines

I was lucky enough to be appointed as a member of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and write this article from that perspective. In the past, I have always been on the outside looking in on the Dietary Guidelines process, wondering why bigger changes were never made and why it took five years to publish a little pamphlet with broad dietary guidelines. I now appreciate the amount of effort it takes to develop and support dietary guidelines and also appreciate the implications that d…