Interesting look at how Australia's Dietary Guidelines came into being..
http://blog.babyboomersandbellies.com/?p=17
http://blog.babyboomersandbellies.com/?p=17
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Dietary Guidelines In Oz
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Great short piece but I would have gone further to show Big Food's influence and possibly added refs to the influence of tbe Church in promoting it's own interest in Australia. We here cannot rest on our laurels, ours are just as bad and worse if one considers that U.K followed blindly where others led.
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A bit long, but very interesting, certainly goes into the story of how we all got here.
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Well, well, well - big changes announced this morning under the new CEO of the Dietitian's Association of Australia. As of 31 December 2018, they are stopping all their commercial etc partnerships.
All I can say is ... about flippin' time!
All I can say is ... about flippin' time!
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Jennifer's blog continues:
http://blog.babyboomersandbellies.com/?p=145
http://blog.babyboomersandbellies.com/?p=145
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Thank you @Indy51 for Jennifer Elliott's blogs.
As most Aussies hopefully know, but thems overseas may not, 15 Health Boards representing health professionals are members of Australian Health Professionals Regulations Agency (APHRA). Surprise, surprise DAA is not one of them.
DAA seems to pride itself on being 'self-regulatory' and as far as I can find is the only one sponsored by the food industry or any other industry for that matter. Nor could I find evidence on the public site of this sponsorship, nor any declaration of a potential conflict of interest in being so sponsored. And was there not a DAA committee member on the team that investigated Jennifer Elliot regarding low Carb, high Fat diet - talk about alleged apprehension of bias !!
Its Statement of Ethical Practice (revised Dec 2014) is reads "DAA is the leader in nutrition for better food, food health and well-being for all". Yet as Jennifer Elliott has pointed out a lot of past dietary advice Australians received in the past was flawed.
And DAA 's Statement also says dieitians -"will limit their provision of alternative therapies to those who seek it and only about therapy for which there is documented scientific peer-reviewed evidence of effectiveness."
Apparently the American Diabetes Association Publications and one prominent US researcher's statement (but no discussion allowed)!did not meet that standard according to DAA regarding the case of Jennifer Elliot. Unfortunately it is also not clear how independent the governance of DAA is either.
Can a change in CEO of DAA make a big difference? If so will DAA be prosecuted, required to join APHRA for improved oversight and drop the ugly sponsorship, and most importantly will the persecution of Jennifer Elliot's be quashed and her role as a dieitian be restored ?
As most Aussies hopefully know, but thems overseas may not, 15 Health Boards representing health professionals are members of Australian Health Professionals Regulations Agency (APHRA). Surprise, surprise DAA is not one of them.
DAA seems to pride itself on being 'self-regulatory' and as far as I can find is the only one sponsored by the food industry or any other industry for that matter. Nor could I find evidence on the public site of this sponsorship, nor any declaration of a potential conflict of interest in being so sponsored. And was there not a DAA committee member on the team that investigated Jennifer Elliot regarding low Carb, high Fat diet - talk about alleged apprehension of bias !!
Its Statement of Ethical Practice (revised Dec 2014) is reads "DAA is the leader in nutrition for better food, food health and well-being for all". Yet as Jennifer Elliott has pointed out a lot of past dietary advice Australians received in the past was flawed.
And DAA 's Statement also says dieitians -"will limit their provision of alternative therapies to those who seek it and only about therapy for which there is documented scientific peer-reviewed evidence of effectiveness."
Apparently the American Diabetes Association Publications and one prominent US researcher's statement (but no discussion allowed)!did not meet that standard according to DAA regarding the case of Jennifer Elliot. Unfortunately it is also not clear how independent the governance of DAA is either.
Can a change in CEO of DAA make a big difference? If so will DAA be prosecuted, required to join APHRA for improved oversight and drop the ugly sponsorship, and most importantly will the persecution of Jennifer Elliot's be quashed and her role as a dieitian be restored ?
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On a slightly less serious note:
I'm good with that.
Then again I use Cooks Matches.
I would have posted a link but the tablet is being awkward.
Edit: https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254602360
I'm good with that.
Then again I use Cooks Matches.
I would have posted a link but the tablet is being awkward.
Edit: https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254602360
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