The nutrition world continues to be it's own worst enemy with messaging 🙃

Aforementioned cats:

Life's little joys: Iced coffee, cats and solvent resistant laboratory markers

Bought a new work bag yesterday (for myself,ostensibly)

Thankful for UPF clothing and Canadian 🇨🇦 approval of Mexoryl !

Here's to hoping this is truly the last RD exam I have to take! 🇨🇦

Remember when people used to debate about low carb vs low fat 😂

Good to be in rainy NOLA for #ADAscisessions!

Cory Booker sharing Casey Means podcasts with conspiracy theories about Bayer/Glyphosate that make zero sense is peak Democratic party 2026.

In nutrition as clickbait for failing legacy media institutions ex #656765876, we have CNN putting out this headline on a new cross sectional analysis published in a Radiology journal with zero capacity for causal inference and even lower quality than usual dietary assessment. MAHA I guess

4. You'll note throughout the memo that they're not making anything mandatory (language like "hospitals should") beyond what CFR says & there's little talk of enforcement of the DGA standards. That's likely not an accident - if hospitals enforced the suggested menus tmrrw, reimbursement wld drop

1. The conditions of participation are listed in 42 CFR 482.28. They're all about standards for having dietitians ensure that patients are getting appropriate diets. They don't give the regulatory authority to start requiring menus align specifically with the DGAs.

for any not following, CMS released a memo reiterating the requirement of hospitals of the Medicare conditions of participation that include nutrition standards, and encouraged alignment of menus and policies with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, incld 8 goals. Might sound good but huge holes:

Good to pop back into sunny DC for a minute and excited for what's sure to be an excellent panel at @gwpublichealth.bsky.social !

When the misguided priorities of MAHA fade - everything from majoring in the minors of food additives to the cashgrab of functional medicine & dangerous false dichotomies of vit A/vaccines - I hope there is still some energy left to entertain a serious conversation about real nutrition.

The carnivoreMD dude who isn't a carnivore anymore and took raw milk shooters in the Oval Office with RFK Jr launched a protein bar today. Bragging about 20g of protein but 8g of it comes from collagen (mostly nutritionally junk) so its an overpriced sugary whey (coconut sugar&honey tho 🤪) bar.

Irrelevant & quack stuff also displaces real competencies. The entire public health nutrition competency list has little if anything to do with public health - nothing about local and state programs that provide food aid & medically tailored meals, how SNAP and WIC work, food safety, etc

It'll probably surprise few that HHS managed to slip a whole bunch of quackery & functional medicine junk into their nutrition competencies for medical trainees. This isn't competencies for physicians, its training for being a popular influencer in 2019.

Happy International Women's Day! I'm grateful to be in the field of nutrition, which is dominated by badass women. If you haven't, I recommend reading Janet King PhD RD's 2003 commentary on women in nutrition science & the legacies of Drs Morgan & Calloway as pioneering nutrition academics.

In all the Means fanfare, folks are losing site of the fact that we already have a nearly 40 yr old Surgeon General report on nutrition & obesity that is still quite relevant today. It's a shining example of how the Surgeon General has limited power to address nutrition-related chronic disease

Its kind of wild to watch academic publishing collapsing in real time and the wheels of the system (journals, tenure & promotion committees, etc) just keep moving as tho publishing more and chasing high impact factor journals is gonna help science and society. (Below is not an outlier situation)

Weird flex for Alabama when it consistently gets a failing grade on all major maternal and child health metrics.

HHS is putting out bizarre propaganda on the other site about the nutrient density of butter and beef tallow. Have genuinely only seen these claims from wellness influencers and butter promoting websites.

Glad to see gender-affirming care finally make it into the DGAs.

Continuing with the "basic food composition" facts being wrong... Min processed yogurt here is full fat greek Proc is a low-fat regular yogurt Processed-fat Free is back to a greek yogurt but nutrition facts are all jacked up - 0g fat, 9g carbs, 12g protein does not get you 150kcals -should be 80

Supervisors in 2026 are very micromanagey.

Had fun working w colleagues on this updated Systematic Review & Meta Analysis of trials reducing or modifying saturated fat published in @annalsofim.bsky.social -this work has been ongoing for a couple years but the timing of it wrapping up &current political landscape couldnt be more serendipitous

Sad to see these revised standards for 'integrative and functional nutrition' coming from RDs in the era of MAHA - a time to critically evaluate, not endorse, this psuedoscientific gish gallop of unvalidated diagnostic tests & handwavey rationale for therapy (mitochondria! toxins! epigenetics!)

Looking forward to chatting with the British Dietetic Association CVD specialist group about lessons we can learn from MAHA today!

Sometimes I like Banza tho - except Banza is a UPF because it uses pea starch & a plant gum for texture. IMO as a RD, both the edamame and chickpea pastas are hella industrially processed & are also highly nutritious with no attributes linked to any negative health outcomes.