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Q&A: Pat Crawford, UC Nutrition Policy Institute

“Not changing is risky. The United States – along with Mexico – has the highest obesity rates in the industrialized world. With these extraordinarily high obesity rates, we are on …

Friday Wrap: 5/1/15

UC Food Observer chooses a handful of important stories for you to read as you finish your work week. On the menu, in no particular order: a UC Food Observer …

Vilsack: Dietary guidelines about health, not environment

Last month a panel of nutrition experts generated controversy in some quarters when it explicitly linked environmental health with human health by recommending that the nation’s dietary guidelines consider environmental …

Eat for the good of the planet: drink water

UC Food Observer has produced several posts about the 2015 Dietary Guidelines. A committee of scientists (the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee) has completed a report and submitted its recommendations, which …

How should we eat?

How should we eat? Food author Mark Bittman writes about the 2015 Dietary Guidelines. He provides a good analysis of the recommendations that may be included in those guidelines (571 …