To the act the dga shall contain guidelines for the general public, shall be based on the preponderance at the time the report is prepared and promoted by each agency carrying out food or nutritional program. A sound Development Process is important because it is extremely difficult to reverse or change Public Policy once implemented without causing consumer confusion. At a time when consumers are already subjected to conflicting and often contradictory health information, staying within scope of the intent of the law by providing with sciencebased information is more likely to contribute to improve Public Health outcomes. The process of the 2015 gga began in 2012 when secretary vilsack and secretary burwells predecessor secretary sibilius created the committee. Though its not specifically authorized all must be chartered under the federal Advisory Committee act that requires it be accessible by the public and stoeb operating, overseeing and terminating committees. This makes the Commi
You can also let us know what you think on social media. Our twitter handle is cspanwj. We are on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Or, you can send us an email at journal cspan. Org. Now, white house spokesman josh earnest was at a News Conference on friday to explain the president s decision. Here is what he said. [video clip] our efforts have improve their performance on the battlefield. It has yielded progress. The president wants to identify that assistance that we are providing. One way to intensify that assistance is pair them up with experts, some of the smartest, bravest, most effective fighters in the United States military. That is exactly what were doing. I do expect that will improve their performance on the battlefield. They will not be in a combat mission. [indiscernible] they could find themselves in a combat situation. There is no denying the amount of risk they are taking on here. They will be equipped to defend themselves. Host we are talking about the u. S. s decisio
Industry and brought to you as a Public Service by local cable satellite provider. Watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. You are watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. The book is called food politics how the Food Industry influences nutrition and health the author Marion Nestle who is a professor of nutrition, food studies and Public Health at New York University. Professor nestle, how big is the use of industry . Its more than a trillion dollars a year. Its enormous. It employs a vast percentage of the nations people. Everybody eats every day. Day. They couldnt be more important. In your book you can. To the tobacco industry. Only in certain ways. Food is very different from tobacco. Tobacco is simple. [inaud] one product, really bad for health, clearly responsiblef for terrible form of cancer and deaths, and theres one message, dont smoke. Food is much more complicated than that. You cant tell people not toudil eat. The
It employs a vast percentage of the nations people. Everybody eats every day. It couldnt be more important. [inaudible] food is different from tobacco. Its simple. One product is really bad for health [inaudible] they cant live with it if they dont eat and its not just one product. Its thousands of products but the question dealing with nutrition issues [inaudible] [inaudible] calories available in the food supply every day and the people read about these figures so the Food Industry is competitive and it has to find lots of ways and in doing that as the number of calories increase it is to contain more and more ways to push food on people and it did that very effectively. Host how did it do that . Guest we have to go back into the 70s. Starting in the late 1970s, early 1980s three things happened. First was that the cultural policy is changed so that instead of paying farmers not to grow food, we paid them to grow as much as they can and they do and thats why theres more calories in t
Again following a small track fire that shut down the station around 2 00 this afternoon. It forced metro to single track trains on the or angeand silver lines a while. No injuries were reported. We are bracing for the coldest temperatures of the season. First alert chief meteorologist topper shutt joins us now with more on what we can expect. Brrr, top. We got lots to talk about because with the cold will some some snow showers. Were looking ahead. Some afternoon snow showers could affect the evening commute tomorrow, best chance between 1 p. M. And 5 p. M. Wind chills tomorrow night behind arctic front no. 1 will be below 0. Theres a better chance of snow showers saturday evening. It takes five to 10 minutes of snow showers to coat the ground. Wind chills sunday will be 10 to 20 degrees below 0, in part because of the wind. 8 00 tomorrow winds not a factor, but we get in lunchtime winds gusting to 14 Miles Per Hour downtown and boom, by 6 p. M. Well see winds almost to 40 Miles Per H