Kevin Klatt, PhD, RD

The Dietitians of Canada's Practice-Based Evidence in Nutrition recently posted a blog titled " Nutritional Genomics in the Dietetics Curriculum - How Far Have We Come? ". The post summed up some recent research suggesting that dietetics professionals and students don't feel confident that they have a strong knowledge base regarding nutritional genomics, but are eager to learn more! This finding comes at a time when the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics has released their draft Future Education Model Accreditation Standards, highlighting the need for an understanding of the basic concepts of nutritional genomics. As the field moves forward and needs to teach nutritional genomics/critically evaluate the field, it's important to have relevant resources to understand the basics. Below are a few resources which might help! If you have any questions about nutritional genomics or topics in molecular nu...

A few folks reached out to me to ask if I'd seen the recent JAMA Internal Medicine piece on the Sugar Industry's influence of nutrition science back in the 1960's. Several publications have covered the topic, some fair, some oversimplifying the situation, few adding sufficient context - for a roundup of prominent links, see the following:  1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5  , 6 . Most of the links and published commentaries either directly or implicitly state that the Sugar Research Foundation (SRF) paid researchers to think in some way and write research for them - alas, the nature of the files uncovered can't confirm such a relationship; the review's authors even note this in their limitation section: "There is no direct evidence that the sugar industry wrote or changed the NEJM review manuscript; the evidence that the industry shaped the review’s conclusions is circumstantial". Before I mention any context that I think is relevant, let's start off by that t...