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Unit 1Issue: Are Dietary Guidelines Ethical and User Friendly?YES: Mark Hay, from "What Americans Can Learn from the New Dutch Dietary Guidelines." The Daily Good (2016)NO: Michiel Korthals, from "Ethics of Dietary Guidelines: Nutrients, Processes and Meals," Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics (2017)Journalist Hay applauds the new Dutch Dietary Guidelines and their recommendations to cut back on animal foods-no more than one serving of fish per week and no processed meat. These recommendations are based largely on environmental sustainability. Professor Korthals groups the Dutch and American dietary guidelines in the category of focusing on nutrients and foods and points out the recommendations are influenced by groups from the sugar, beef, egg, and dairy industries. He criticizes both countries' belief that they have "the final truth on the healthiness of nutrients, and they heap scorn on diet gurus".Issue: Will the U.S. Government's Dietary Guidance Improve Health?YES: 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, from "Executive Summary," Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (2015)NO: Adele Hite, from "Healthy Nation Coalition's Letter to the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and the United States Department of Agriculture Regarding the Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee," Healthy Nation Coalition (2015)The 2015 DGAC acknowledges that the average American has not followed dietary recommendations to reduce consumption of saturated fat, sodium, and sugar and continues to recommend for reductions in the three nutrients to improve health in Americans. They also stress the importance of eating an overall healthy diet and support food-based dietary guidelines with emphasis on fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Adele Hite believes that the DGAC report will "perpetuate the same ineffective federal nutrition guidance that has persisted for nearly four decades but has not achieved positive health outcomes for the American public." He cites studies that claim reductions in saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium, while increasing starch and vegetable oils actually increase the risk for chronic diseases. Hite, the Healthy Nation Coalition director and co-founder, claims that "Millions of taxpayer dollars are spent on policies and practices related to guidance whose scientific foundation has yet to be established."Issue: Should Dietary Guidelines Stress Less Added Sugars?YES: Barbara E. Millen, from "Part D. Chapter 6: Cross-Cutting Topics of Public Health Importance: Added Sugars and Low-Calorie Sweeteners," Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (2015)NO: Andrew C. Briscoe III and P. Courtney Gaine, from "The Sugar Association's Letter Written in Response to Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee," The Sugar Association (2015)The DGAC concludes that there is strong evidence that diets high in added sugars are associated with overweight, obesity, and type 2 diabetes and moderate evidence that sugars are linked to dental caries, hypertension, stroke, and cardiovascular disease. They call for an upper limit (UL) of 10 percent of energy to come from added sugars in the diet. They also recommend that additional studies need to be conducted on the roles of sugars and various health conditions. The Sugar Association, whose mission is to "monitor nutrition science . . . to provide science-based information . . . and to ensure that Federal nutrition and food policy regarding sugar is based on the preponderance of scientific evidence," asks the Secretaries of HHS and USDA to continue the same advice about added sugars that was in the 2010 DGA. The 2010 advice is to simply reduce intake of calories from added sugars and limit refined grains that contain added sugars, without a specific upper limit recommendation based on the percent of energy.Unit 2: Nutrition and HealthIssue: Is Nutrigenomics Useful in Weight Loss?YES: David C. Merritt, Joseph Jamnik, and Ahmed El-Sohemy, from "FTO Genotype, Dietary Protein Intake, and Body Weight in a Multiethnic Population of Young Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study," Genes and Nutrition (2018)NO: Caitlin Dow, from "Personalized Nutrition: Do You Need a Just-for-Me Diet?" Nutrition Action Healthletter (2018)The race to identify nutrition-related genes has been underway since the human genome was sequenced in 2003. One of the first identified was the fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene. As early as 2007, reports have linked certain variants of this gene to a variety nutrient/weight-loss diets. Merritt and his team support this belief and conclude that high protein intake results in greater weight loss among individuals with certain FTO variants. Caitlin Dow disagrees and points out that results of her genetic testing found two high-risk variants of the FTO gene, but she is not overweight or obese. She also concludes that at least 97 gene variants have been linked to obesity, but only account for 3 percent of weight differences among the population.Issue: Do Probiotics and Prebiotics Promote Health?YES: Rout George Kerry et al., from "Benefaction of Probiotics for Human Health: A Review," Journal of Food and Drug Analysis (2018)NO: Matt Wood, from "Do Probiotics Work?" Science Life (2014)Rout George Kerry leads the group of researchers from India and Korea to describe the differences between and sources of probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics. They review the latest research related to use of probiotics to treat diarrhea, obesity, diabetes, IBS and cancer. Matt Wood discusses what the scientific studies show about the various biotics but points out some negative effects of prebiotics and stresses that there is only a very short list of probiotics shown to actually be beneficial to health.Issue: Does Eating Beans Improve Health?YES: Donna M. Winham et al., from "Arizona Registered Dietitians Show Gaps in Knowledge of Bean Health Benefits," Nutrients (2018)NO: Joseph Mercola, from "The Case Against Beans and Other Foods Containing Toxic Lectins," Mercola (2018)Winham and her colleagues claim that beans are nutrient-dense and emphasize the benefits that beans provide to humans have been recognized for many years. They point out several epidemiological studies that indicate consuming high amounts of beans is associated with greater longevity. The focus of their article is describing the knowledge that Registered Dietitians Nutritionist have about beans, legumes, and pulses. Mercola warns that beans contain lectin, a substance known to cause a variety of health problems. He points out that lectins cause the most problems to individuals who have thyroid dysfunction, arthritis, diabetes or heart disease.Issue: Is Modern Wheat Unhealthy?YES: Kris Gunnars, from "Modern Wheat-Old Diet Staple Turned into a Modern Health Nightmare," Authority Nutrition (2014)NO: The National Wheat Improvement Committee, from "Wheat Improvement: The Truth Unveiled," National Association of Wheat Growers (2013)Kris Gunnars claims that there are profound genetic changes in modern wheat and that it is processed differently than wheat grown in earlier times. He describes how the new wheat is the root of a variety of health problems. Members of the National Wheat Improvement Committee point out why modern wheat is not the cause of celiac disease or gluten sensitivity. And that today's wheat has less gluten protein but improved gluten function than historical wheat.Issue: Does Coconut Oil Provide Health Benefits?YES: The Coconut Research Center, from "The Coconut Oil Miracle: Where Is the Evidence?" Coconut Research Center (2015)NO: William A. Correll, from "FDA Warning Letter to Carrington Farms," Office of Compliance, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration (2015)Authors of the Coconut Research Center website boast of the various health benefits of coconut oil related to seizures, dementia, ALS and cardiovascular disease. They describe the number of studies available through a PubMed search that support the health benefits of coconut oil and the medium-chain fatty acids found in the oil. After reviewing claims that Carrington Farms includes on the labels of coconut oil, William Correll, FDA Director Office of Compliance, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, issues a warning letter to the company pointing out the therapeutic claims on their website about coconut oil classify it as a drug, not a food, and points out other violations on the labels.Issue: Are Artificial Sweeteners Harmful?YES: Joseph Mercola, from "Reconfirmed: Artificial Sweeteners Make You Fat and Sick" Mercola (2018)NO: Szimonetta Lohner, Ingrid Toews, and Joerg J. Meerpohl, from "Health Outcomes of Non-nutritive Sweeteners: Analysis of the Research Landscape" Nutrition Journal (2017)