Kevin Klatt, PhD, RD

Earlier this month, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics released it's commentary on the scientific report of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans' Committee. You can find these comments here .  (Edit: (re-edit: it appears to be back up) AND's official commentary appears to have been taken down. You can still find it here:  http://www.eatrightidaho.org/wp-content/uploads/Academy-Comments-re-DGAC-Scientific-Report2-1.pdf  )  For any members of AND, I highly encourage that you reach out to Sonja Connor (president@eatright.org) and let her know your thoughts on this commentary, good or bad. If this blog post leaves you concerned about this commentary, I would especially urge you to reach out to the president. In short, the report comments on the evidence-base used by the Dietary Guidelines Committee, their thoughts on dietary patterns, makes nice comments on the struggle to determine the amount of phosphorus in foods from food labels, supports the use of the DGAC's ...

I recently stumbled onto a nearly decade old statistics/research series that's been ongoing in the academy of nutrition and dietetics journal (the series is split between JADA and JAND). I've been reading through it and appreciate its review of basic statistics and more complex methods, especially since it's framed in topics relevant to nutrition (I think what I hated most about stats was the examples being more relevant to baseball players and not biomedical scientists). In addition to JAND's efforts in stats education, ASN/AJCN have been running a series called "best (but oft-forgotten) practices). We've all had that moment JAND's series: 1.  Publishing nutrition research: a review of study design, statistical analyses, and other key elements of manuscript preparation Part 1:   Part 2:   2.   A Review of Nonparametric Methods 3. An Introduction to Qualitative Research for Food and Nutrition Professionals 4. A Review of Epidemiologi...