“health in the first place”

M. Nestle. “Food Lobbies, the Food Pyramid, and U.S. Nutrition Policy,” Int. J. Health Serv. 23 (3)  (1993): 483.

“agency for dietary advice”

U.S. House of Representatives. “H.R. 3520 – Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriation Bill,” (Washington DC, U.S. Congress, 1988), Rule 100-690.

“the sham that they were”

G.M. Oppenheimer and I.D. Benrubi. “McGovern’s Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs Versus the Meat Industry on the Diet-Heart Question (1976-1977),” Am. J. Public Health 104  (2014): 1.

“the food industry”

M. Nestle. “Perspective: Challenges and Controversial Issues in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 1980-2015,” Adv. Nutr. 9 (2)  (2018): 148.

“up to twelve years”

N. Teicholz. “The Scientific Report Guiding the U.S. Dietary Guidelines: Is It Scientific?” BMJ Open 351 (2015): h4962.

“lacked scientific rigor”

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Redesigning the Process for Establishing the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2017).

“it did not exist”

B.C. Johnston et al. “Methods for Trustworthy Nutritional Recommendations NutriRECS (Nutritional Recommendations and Accessible Evidence Summaries Composed of Systematic Reviews): A Protocol,” BMC Med. Res. Methodol. 18  (2018): 162.

“inappropriately marketed”

World Health Organization. Commercial Foods for Infants and Young Children in the WHO European Region. (Geneva: World Health Organization, 2019).

“foods was made”

Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. “Scientific Report of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee,”USDA (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 2020).

“SNAP were for SSBs”

A. O’Connor.  “In the Shopping Cart of a Food Stamp Household: Lots of Soda,” New York Times, Jan 13, 2017.

“million on juices”

Editorial Board. “Food Stamps Should Be Spent on Food,” Bloomberg News, Jan 17, 2018.

“obesity and diabetes”

S. Basu et al. “Ending SNAP Subsidies for Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Could Reduce Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes,” Health Aff. 33 (6)  (2014): 1032.

“the obesity epidemic”

P. McGeehan.  “U.S. Rejects Mayor’s Plan to Ban Use of Food Stamps to Buy Soda,” New York Times, Aug 19, 2011.

“and Lunch Program”

J. Belluz.  “A New Trump Rule Could Take Food Stamps Away from 755,000 People,” Vox, Dec 21, 2018.

“(NSLP) in 1981”

R. Pear.  “President Gets Revised Proposals for Standards on School Lunches,” New York Times.

“consumed by Socrates”

M. Largo. “Big, Bad Botany: Hemlock (Conium maculatum), the Philosopher’s Choice,” Slate, Aug 21, 2014.

“appropriations bill”

L. Winstead. “Is Pizza a Vegetable? Well, Congress Says So,” The Guardian, Nov 18, 2011.

“in January 2020”

A. Aubrey. “More Pizza and Fries? USDA Proposes to ‘Simplify’ Obama-Era School Lunch Rules,” Jan 17, 2020.

“dental caries”

D.M. Klurfeld. “What Do Government Agencies Consider in the Debate over Added Sugars?” Adv. Nutr. 4  (2013): 257.

“GMO-free” on water”

A. Cheevers.  “You Can Now Buy GMO-Free Water in the USA.” Genetic Literacy Project. (IFLScience, 2020).

“muscovado, and demerara”

Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. “Ingredients Declared as Evaporated Cane Juice: Guidance for Industry,”  (Washington, DC: Food and Drug Administration, 2016).

“recent guidance was in 2016”

Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. “Guidance for Industry: Ingredients Declared as Evaporated Cane Juice,” (Washington, DC: Food and Drug Administration, 2016).

“fat as unhealthy”

E. Price.  “KIND Bars Petitions the FDA to Change How It Regulates Food Labels,” Fortune, Mar 13, 2019.

“can do it, so can we”

A. Au-Yeung. “Social Spin Doctor: KIND Bar’s Daniel Lubetzky Builds a $1.5 Billion Fortune on Do-Gooder Rhetoric,” Forbes, Mar 5, 2019.

“weight gain and obesity”

R.A. Bentley et al. “U.S. Obesity as Delayed Effect of Excess Sugar,” Econ. Hum. Biol. 36 (2020): 100818.

“was released in 1986”

W.H. Glinsmann et al. “Evaluation of Health Aspects of Sugars Contained in Carbohydrate Sweeteners. Report of Sugars Task Force, 1986,” J. Nutr. 116  (1986): 1/S.

“three liver transplants, and one death”

Food and Drug Administration. “Five Individuals and Two Companies Plead Guilty to Felony Charges in Multimillion Dollar Scheme to Fraudulently Sell Popular Dietary Supplements,” FDA Press Release, Mar 13, 2019.

“the agency by attrition”

F. Morris.  “Critics of Relocating USDA Research Agencies Point to Brain Drain.” NPR, Sept 10, 2019.