These poor nutrition guidelines have been in place over many administrations and are not party-specific. Rather, I fear that since the proposals to change the guidelines are a threat to food manufacturers (very powerful), medicine (pawns in a nutritional war game where most have been informed incorrectly about what constitutes healthy diets), and pharmaceuticals (most powerful with billions involved), it's a situation that must be done outside the political sphere. To state this as a political issue further ignores the lack of science underlying these current nutritional guidelines. I'm unhappy with Politico's take, as it's never that simple to be able to blame it on one group. Lot's of work, non-biased research, and educating to do before we ever get to the truth. If it remains political, there's the potential danger that the way we eat will be achieved through ineffective laws, taxes, and food bans. I doubt that's something that anyone would want.

NOTE: This is purely a statement on the dynamics of nutrition science and DGAs that everyone is dealing with today, and it is very relevant to our discussions on this forum. The issue dovetails very nicely with the discussions in Gary Taubes new book.