Showing posts with label Professional Integrity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Professional Integrity. Show all posts

Monday, March 31, 2014

Excerpt from "Lethal but Legal" by Nicholas Freudenberg

Excerpt from "Lethal but Legal" by Nicholas Freudenberg pg. 152

Core Beliefs and Values of Advocates for Healthy, Sustainable Consumption

1. Making a profit by sickening others is wrong.
2. Parents, families, teachers, and health professionals, not corporations, should educate people about health, nutrition, and moral values.
3. Nanny corporations that seek to exploit children's vulnerability and immaturity, not nanny states, are the real threats to health and freedom.
4. The goal of social policy should be to make healthy choices easy choices.
5. In a globalized world, economic activity anywhere affects people everywhere; shifting the harms of such activity to another region or country in order to protect one group is wrong.
6. Every generation has a responsibility to leave the world a better place for future generations. Knowingly bequeathing our children and grandchildren a burden of disease, damaged environments, or corrupted democracy violates most of the world's moral codes.
7. Science belongs to all humanity; appropriating it to profit at the expense of health or the environment is wrong.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo 2013 in Houston, Texas

The annual meeting of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is in Houston this year, also known as the Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo (FNCE). David will be going as a member of the Executive Committee of theBehavioral Health Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group. There will be also be a meeting for Dietitians for Professional Integrity, which is a movement started by dietitians who believe that the Academy should not be receiving funding from organizations like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. I am a supporter of this movement and am willing to take action towards challenging the obvious corruption of the food industry, particularly their influence upon nutrition curriculum targeted towards dietitians. Stay tuned for details on the progress we are making!

For more info click HERE