Cheerios a Health Food, Says Leader of White House Conference on Nutrition
Recently I had a popular tweet, which I thought I’d share it with you—since it helps understand why one might have doubts about the upcoming White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health, billed as the biggest event on food policy in more than fifty years.
Here’s the tweet:
I’d like to feel optimistic about White House Conference on Nutrition in Sept., but guy in charge created this food ranking system:
Frosted Mini Wheats, Lucky charms >> whole egg
Ice cream w/ nuts > ground beef
Honey Nut Cheerios > egg fried in butterhttps://t.co/17yj3vvmIZ pic.twitter.com/V8IHqEGgyE— Nina Teicholz (@bigfatsurprise) July 17, 2022
(Full food-item rankings can be found here.)
This food scoring system, called the “Food Compass,” was published in Nature Food in 2021, with lead author, Dariush Mozaffarian, who is the Dean of the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Moza
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