Government Dietary Guidelines: Uncertain Science Leads to Questionable Public Health Policy

Edward Archer, Michael Marlow and Richard Williams
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No 6868, Working Papers from George Mason University, Mercatus Center

Abstract: The US Department of Agriculture has issued dietary recommendations for more than a century, and during that period the health, longevity, and nutritional status of Americans improved markedly. Before the release of the first Dietary Guidelines for Americ

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Date: 2017-04-20
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