Wastefully combining taxpayer-funded bureaucratic babble with Big Government nagging, the next five-year update of federal dietary guidelines, due in 2015, promises to be hard to swallow.
Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) “experts” appointed by the departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services are formulating recommendations. The heapin' helpin of government gobbledygook that The Washington Free Beacon found them cooking up at a meeting is less than appetizing.
Chairwoman Barbara Millen says the 2015 guidelines' key theme “is not only understanding the complexity of the influences on diet and physical activity, the complexity of relationships between diet and physical activity and health outcomes, but what works from an evidence-based standpoint in terms of changing lifestyle behavior to most effectively impact overall health.” And the committee must be “culturally sensitive” as it addresses food's marketing, its environmental “sustainability” and “models for effective population behavior change.”
Among the latter are text messages to obese people: “Try to eat high fat foods less often. This is a good way to cut calories.” An advisory committee member's research toward this breakthrough in nanny-stating the obvious cost taxpayers $1.2 million from 2002 to 2005 via the National Institutes of Health — which later squandered another $1.5 million on nagging by text.
Stuffed full of arrogant, spendthrift government-knows-best liberalism, the DGAC and the 2015 guidelines should turn Americans' stomachs.
