CSPI Letter to White House re: Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health

This Conference is an opportunity to address hunger, food system inequities, chronic disease, and health together, and to modernize and enhance our food system. It is a chance to build our food environment into one that ensures access to a healthy diet for all residents of the United States.

CSPI comment on questions to be examined by the dietary guidelines for Americans 2025-2030

CSPI submitted these comments to the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services in response to the proposed scientific questions to be examined to develop the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

CSPI comments to USDA re: child nutrition program transitional standards

CSPI submits these comments in response to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s “Child Nutrition Programs: Transitional Standards for Milk, Whole Grains, and Sodium” final rule (87 FR 6984), which will provide necessary flexibility to schools for SY 2022-2023 and SY 2023-2024 as they respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. CSPI urges the USDA to align school meals with the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, particularly with respect to added sugars, sodium, and whole grains in the rulemaking expected later this year.

National Academy of Medicine report confirms advice to eat less salt

CSPI's takeaways from the 2020-2025 dietary guidelines for Americans

Dietary guidelines drops expert panel’s added sugars recommendation

Dietary guidelines advisory committee gets it mostly right

Yesterday, the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee reaffirmed the strong scientific grounds to support many long-standing recommendations.

CSPI Comment to 2020 DGAC re: Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease

FAQ: What is the dietary guidelines for Americans?

CSPI comment on topics and comments to be examined in 2020-2025 dietary guidelines for Americans

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) submits these comments in response to the proposed topics for the 2020–2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. CSPI is a non-profit consumer education and advocacy organization that since 1971 has been working to improve the public’s health through better nutrition and food safety. CSPI’s work is supported primarily by the 600,000 subscribers to its Nutrition Action Healthletter, one of the nation’s largest-circulation health newsletters. CSPI is an independent organization that does not accept government or corporate funding.