Food regulation has been a hot topic for years, at nutritionist and health advocates would fight for their stand in minimizing processed food regulation, which is usually blamed for the increasing obesity rate for more than two decades. As the battle against nutritionist and deep huge food corporations to define what appropriate meals Americans should consume.
As per Times News, Farm groups and Coca Cola food industries are concerned about the government panels request to trim down meat and sugar consumption which is accounted for the 85% of the entities weighing in on the issue from April to June as federal records show, then the rest of the 15% is consist of the health and environmental groups.
Kristy Anderson, the government relations manager in Washington for the American Heart Association then stood her ground making a statement stating that:
"When you're a non-profit you rely on donor dollars, and we don't have the resources others have, when we advocate it comes down to the science and our reputation."
It is then stated that if the Obama administration would be able to move the nutrition policy closer to the goal in the reduction of the over consumption that is being blamed for the US obesity rates from the 1960's to 2010 which has triples over the years.
A panel of scientist that advises the agency known as the non-partisan Dietary Guides Advisory Committee were the ones who first proposed to minimize the usage of sugar from food processing.
Food and Drug Administration made an effort to endorse the 10 % concept as part of the labeling proposal to begin noting the "added-sugars" content on soda boxes, breakfast cereals and other food packaging, they then stated that the consumption level should be based on the agency's recommended daily limited imprinted on the boxes as per Bloomberg Business.
A nutrition and chemistry professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and an advisory panel member, Tom Brenna said he remains hopeful that the government may not stray too far just to arouse public interest, he stated:
"I think we're having an effect, no matter how the guidelines will turn out, If we have to repeat ourselves, we'll say them again and again and again."
