Regulatory Crack Down on Moderate Drinking?

The Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services are currently finalizing the 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, as they do every five years. These guidelines are critically important. They represent the bedrock of all nutrition policymaking and regulatory orders in the years that follow. This year, however, there is a reason for concern. The report recommendations provided by the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC), the panel of professors created by the departments to help direct their decision-making, have put political machinations and myopic ideology over sound science.