meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Full Measure After Hours

After Hours: Dietitians’ Group Accepting Money From Unhealthy Food Industry

Full Measure After Hours

Sharyl Attkisson

News, Full Measure, News Commentary

51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Gary Ruskin of US Right to Know tells about the watchdog group’s investigation into alleged conflicts of interest within a major group that gives advice on what we should and shouldn’t eat. The group denies any conflicts of interest. You can read more on the response here.

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Hi everybody Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of full measure after hours.

0:10.0

Today alleged conflicts of interest within a top group that gives advice on what we should and shouldn't eat.

0:20.0

Quite often I found nonprofits that have a name that sounds like they do one thing, well they actually do something else.

0:28.0

For example, every child by two wasn't really a child safety organization looking out for dangers that could threaten

0:35.9

children or vaccine risks.

0:38.8

It was really funded by the vaccine industry and designed to squelch vaccine safety questions and controversialize

0:45.9

any researcher or journalist asking them.

0:48.8

Now by the way, every child by two has been renamed, Vaccinate Your Family because why just stick to promoting childhood

0:56.4

vaccines when there are so many people to convince to get COVID vaccines over and over and over again.

1:03.0

Well, another alleged case of conflict of interest

1:06.0

surrounds the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics,

1:10.0

which bills itself as the world's largest group of registered dietician nutritionists.

1:15.0

But what if the things they're teaching and the advice they give are tainted by corporations

1:21.0

that make unhealthy food.

1:23.0

A watchdog group called U.S. Right to Know

1:26.0

did an extensive five-year-long investigation

1:29.0

and unearthed tens of thousands of documents

1:31.0

and they claim it all proves that this dietitians group

1:35.6

just serves as a front for the unhealthy food industry that was giving them money.

1:41.3

Before we hear details about that in our podcast today, here's some of what the Academy of

1:46.0

Nutrition and Dietetics says about the findings.

1:49.8

First of all, the group says that when it has corporate sponsors they follow strict guidelines that the sponsor's vision and mission must align with the Academy's vision, mission, and strategic goals and that the sponsor's product portfolio must be broadly aligned with the Academy's vision, which is a world where all people thrive through the transformative power of food and nutrition.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sharyl Attkisson, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Sharyl Attkisson and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.