‘Obesity’ and ‘Equity’ Expert Dr. Fatima Stanford to Serve on U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has hired “obesity expert” Dr. Fatima Stanford to be on the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Dr. Stanford is not only an Obesity Medicine Physician Scientist with Massachusetts General Hospital, but also serves as the medical institution’s “Equity Director.”
“The 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee will examine the relationship between diet and health across all life stages and will use a health equity lens throughout its evidence review to ensure factors such as socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, and culture are described and considered to the greatest extent possible based on the information provided in the scientific literature and data.”
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Dr. Stanford is arguably not the best, or most unbiased, fit for the role, given that she has profited from prescriptions which forego traditional weight-loss methods and instead medicate the problem, earning the pharmaceutical industry a lifelong customer.
Dr. Stanford is well known in her field as a proponent of “Intuitive Eating,” a philosophy which encourages a “healthy” relationship with food by de-stigmatizing “good” or “bad” foods, eating at the first sign of hunger, and “giving in” to those “forbidden” foods.
“Give yourself unconditional permission to eat . . . When you finally ‘give in’ to your forbidden foods, eating will be experienced with such intensity it usually results in Last Supper overeating and overwhelming guilt.”
Intuitive Eating
The health industry as a whole has, in recent years, moved away from traditional guidance: eat well, exercise, and drink water. That messaging has become far too “fatphobic” for the progressive crowd, it would be career suicide to simply tell an obese patient that losing weight is first and foremost a choice and a commitment. Besides, weight loss medications are big money-makers, so why not tell your patients to eat whatever and whenever their “body tells them to.”
Even the American Academy of Pediatrics recently endorsed giving prescription medications to obese children, in addition to surgeries that would remove excess weight, rather than more traditional methods. Dr. Fatima Stanford claimed on a 60 Minutes interview that obesity is a “brain disease” and is heavily influenced by genetics, not surroundings, diet, or lifestyle.
“The number one cause of obesity is genetics. That means if you are born to parents that have obesity you have 50-85% likelihood of having the disease yourself, even with optimal diet, exercise, sleep management, stress management.”
Dr. Fatima Stanford — 60 Minutes
This is of corse, a massive exaggeration, while genetics may play a role in how quickly an individual can lose weight, it is not the determinant factor in whether or not someone will suffer from obesity. The NHS, CDC, and the NIH all confirm that the main causes behind obesity are a poor diet and lack of exercise, on rare occasions hormonal imbalances and medications can also play a role.
Majority of U.S. Dietary Guidelines Committee Have Conflicts of Interest, But You Should ‘Trust the Experts’
A study conducted by the Cambridge University Press in 2022 found that 95% of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee members have conflicts of interest, consisting mainly of ties and partnerships with pharmaceutical and processed food manufactures. This conflict naturally inhibits their ability to clearly guide the American population on which foods are best for their health, given that the committee members would turn a profit from misleading the public.
“The public concern regarding this study’s findings, is that members of the advisory committee may act in a partisan way, giving a stamp of approval to certain brands or food types that otherwise would not have been recommended.”
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The “medical experts” that Americans are told to trust unconditionally know that obesity was already nearly $173 billion industry in 2019 — if they continue to encourage unhealthy standards of living and push medical treatments or procedures instead, maybe they can double their profits by 2030. This of course would not even begin to scratch the surface of other medical professionals who would profit from an unhealthy population, cardiovascular specialists, insulin manufacturers, and other specialists who treat the repercussions of obesity.
Dr. Fatima Stanford will fit in nicely with the other members, as she has served on a number of pharmaceutical company advisory boards, effectively marketing their products to the public for consumption and vouching for their efficacy on a large scale. Dr. Stanford received $15,500 from Novo Nordisk Inc, a pharmaceutical manufacturer, in 2021 alone (figures are not yet publicly available for 2022). Novo Nordisk Inc is of course the manufacturer of the widely used weight-loss drug, Semaglutide.
The number of individuals classified as obese in America has nearly tripled since the 1960s when just 14% of individuals had a body mass index (BMI) over 30 (anything above 25 is classified as overweight). In 2021, the CDC reported that a little over 41% of Americans are obese by this standard. The figures are especially drastic for childhood obesity throughout the early 2000s. Since the creation of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines in 1980, the number of obese Americans doubled — rather than slowing the obesity epidemic, this big government investment in our “health” as exacerbated the situation.
The Experts Failed Americans by Introducing Thousands of New Chemicals into Food with little Knowledge on Long-Term Effects
“The American diet has changed dramatically since 1958, when Congress gave the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to ensure the safety of chemicals in food. Since then, thousands of chemicals have entered the food system. Yet their long-term, chronic effects have been woefully understudied, their health risks inadequately assessed. The FDA has been sluggish in considering scientific knowledge about the impact of exposures—particularly at low levels and during susceptible developmental stages.”
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The ability of pharmaceutical companies and food manufacturers to lobby government’s “experts” puts American’s health at substantial risk and places them in the middle of a self-serving quid pro quo between industries and scientists. The lack of accountability and lack of incentive to create a healthy American population is incredibly concerning, and change can only be made if more Americans begin to reject the expert narrative regarding Big Food and Big Pharma.
