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Colleagues and Friends of Texas Health Freedom,

In a stunning article on Forbes.com (available at the link below), investigative reporter Michael Ellsberg, using documents leaked by disgruntled members of the American Dietetic Association (ADA), reveals the "smoking gun" of evidence that the ADA's true agenda is the silencing of dissenting voices in the nutrition industry, through the use of secret police-style tactics, and the creation of a monopoly for the dietetics profession:

[www.forbes.com]

We have obtained these same documents, and they are now available at www.texashealthfreedom.com under the heading "ADA Monopoly Documents," about halfway down the left side of the home page.

We have also obtained information that the ADA plans (once again!) to file an exclusionary, monopolistic licensing bill prior to the convening of the 2013 Texas state legislative session. Please be assured we will keep you apprised of the status of this bill, and ask for your support in our effort (for the seventh time!) to thwart this economically motivated special interest group.

Thanks for your support of Texas Health Freedom,

Interesting article, partly because it is very informative and exhaustively documented . . . before it gets a touch too editorial on page 4(where it becomes clear this is way more personal to the author than even his prefratory caveat implied).

Initially when a comment thread about this topic was started couple months ago, I took a gander at Steve Cooksey's blog and thought, "Well, it's reasonable for people with actual science training to not want people to be misled by people like this guy." It seemed to be limited to just that state[North Carolina] at the time. Now that I have read Ellsberg's column and looked at some of the documents he cites, which make no mention of re-establishing standards and modifying curriculum to reflect changing paradigms, I agree that this is more than mere professional protectionism and could have farther reaching implications. I would caution that, as in the case of the Michigan licensing board's stance vis-a-vis licensing of the Dietetics and Nutrition disciplines, assuming that going Full Friedman on this issue, as the blogger appears to condone, isn't going to solve anything, in the long run. Lack of regulation of kookoo-nutsos was how regulation and formal training in nutrition came about in the first place! Well, and the inclination to profit from it.

I still think a balance must be struck between protecting the public--who are increasingly gullible, IMO--and maintaining some sort of professional standard, that must, necessarily, include alternative views, as this accurately reflects a trend of public perception. I think the best way to achieve this balance is not to throw open the floodgates to all comers, no matter how outre their ideas and practices may be, in the hopes that this will somehow result in a natural order asserting itself. Rather, it is for state licensing boards to examine the full breadth of nutrition science regularily, and to recommend institutions alter their curricula to accomodate complementary and alternative outcomes as they are proven. This would require, ironically for Ellsberg, that a profit motive(and lobbying needs) be removed entirely from the equation. And that our Insitutes of Health be at the vanguard of disinterestedly putting energy into studies on hypotheses outside the accepted norms. Alas, this is not likely to happen

Thanks for posting, John.

Here are a couple of follow up articles…

[www.naturalnews.com]
Nutritional spies unleashed by the American Dietetic Association in fight to criminalize nutrition education
Friday, July 20, 2012 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

[www.naturalnews.com]
Power-hungry American Dietetic Association attempting to criminalize nutritional consulting in all 50 states
Thursday, July 19, 2012 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

Here’s another follow up article…

[articles.mercola.com]
Exclusive Leaked Documents: American Dietetic Association Is Intentionally Using State Legislatures to Block Alternative Nutrition Providers and Restrict Free Speech
July 23 2012
By Dr. Mercola

Story at-a-glance

• The North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition, a state chapter of the American Dietetic Association (ADA), has threatened an online nutrition blogger with jail time for exercising his freedom of speech
• Leaked internal documents from the ADA show the agency is cracking down on unlicensed people offering nutritional advice in an attempt to protect their profession from competition
• The ADA only wants you to only get your nutritional advice from an ADA-licensed Registered Dietician, who is likely to be heavily biased by information from food-industry bigwigs
• The ADA is partnered with and sponsored by junk-food industry giants, including Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Mars and Kellogg, and offers continuing education courses to support the use of such dietary atrocities as artificial sweeteners

When health and nutrition blogger Steve Cooksey received a disturbing 19-page letter from the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition, complete with threats of arrest, he did what others are often afraid to do: made it public.