Judicial Watch: U.S. Spends $907 Million on Useless "Nutrition Education"

Judicial Watch ^ | July 31, 2019

[OfficialJudicialWatch]

Besides spending tens of billions of dollars on fraud-infested programs to feed the poor, the U.S. govt wastes an additional $907M to give recipients useless “nutrition education” courses w/rates of effectiveness that cannot be assessed.

[Two Kids' Dad]

Good to see this user account. {{thumb up}}

[Professional]

Useless?

Hardly, that money bought an incredible amount of influence and paid off favors and...

[Reno89519]

Hey, the government workers, contractors, printers, and distribution companies did quite well and can show there success—income earned, profits.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Was gonna say.

If your company made chocolate fudge you could likely get it included as one of the Four Food Groups if you had enough cash and knew which palms to grease.

[fireman15]

The level of ignorance about nutrition is astounding even in this forum. This is largely because of all the nonsense perpetuated by the “diet” industry, but also because people like to believe in shortcuts and easy explanations.

I have no doubt that Judicial Watch is referring to genuine waste, but it would have been nice if the article would have linked to some of the nonsense that they are referring to. When the government is filing out 100s of Billions of dollars to people who are allowed to use the money to buy unhealthy processed crap, it doesn’t seem completely unreasonable that some percentage should be used to help them make better choices. But I don’t know what Judicial Watch, one of my favorite watchdog organizations is referring to because the article does not say.

[fireman15]

Thanks Android autocorrect for changing doling to filing.

[liberalh8ter]

While $907 million for nutritional education (something the government should NOT be in the business of doing) is ridiculous, it begs the bigger question; how much of that money makes its way into the pockets of our elected officials?

[TalonDJ]

“This is largely because of all the nonsense perpetuated by the “diet” industry”

Because who can you trust to have unbiased information? The official pyramids were bought and paid for by food companies. We get a steady stream of random studies and news articles with statistically insignificant studies that contradict each other and all the healthy food nuts are into garbage science and vague scaremongering.

[reformedliberal]

...included as one of the Four Food Groups ...
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sugar (source of energy: carbohydrate)
butter (source of energy:dairy fat)
chocolate: antioxidant
vanilla: plant-based natural flavoring

Under current guidelines, portion size would equal an adult thumbnail.

[deport]

Larry Klayman started an income producing entity.
Bet he regrets leaving to run for Public Office.

[fireman15]

We get a steady stream of random studies and news articles with statistically insignificant studies that contradict each other and all the healthy food nuts are into garbage science and vague scaremongering.

That is so typical of a large percentage of info that we have to filter through these days. And with common sense becoming scarcer by the second, people's ability to develop informed decisions has become severely compromised. Supposedly higher education was suppose to help with this, but these days out institutions of higher education have become leftist drone factories.

[petro45acp]

Maybe not wasted/useless for the folks involved...

Like the food pyramid that had folks gorging on “low-fat” carbs that would require hundreds of foot miles to NOT convert to fat in the body?

Like the “low fat protects against heart disease” when the only things that actually do protect folk is genetics and/or exercise.

like cholesterol is mostly genetic, and is very little affected by diet?

The winners here have been the government agencies doing the “good works,” the companies selling tailored “good” nutrition to us “ignorant losers,” and above all, the medical/insurance industries who, on the one hand can say “it’s your fault you are sick with ..... your lifestyle/diet is this and that’s bad” or, on the other hand “we don’t have to cover that because the government guidelines say it’s your fault for not living this certain way/diet”

To err is human, to really f.......oul up takes a government comittee.

.02, YMMV

KYPD

[M Kehoe]

I wonder how much of my tax dollars went to this black hole?

5.56mm

[mumblypeg]

BINGO!

It’s “nutrition education” “economic stimulus” “job creation” and “vote buying” all roled into one.

Not to mention, all the “educational materials” must be printed in Espanol, Chinese, Arabic, Vietnamese, etc.