Study Questions Flawed Evidence Underlying Dietary Guidelines

In an article published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings , the authors are critical of the data used to inform the Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, claiming that the studies are flawed because the underlying evidence is primarily centered on memory-based dietary assessment methods (M-BMs), such as surveys, interviews and questionnaires. The researchers provide substantial support to reveal that data from M-BMs, which are the dominant data collection protocols in national nutrition surveillance and government-funded epidemiologic nutrition, are "pseudoscientific" and constitute a major misuse of research resources.

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