Last Wednesday, June 29, U.S. Health and Human Services assistant secretary for health Karen DeSalvo announced the members of the “2018 Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee.” The committee members, will examine current scientific evidence on the relationship between physical activity and health outcomes and will ultimately submit evidence-based recommendations in a scientific advisory report to the Secretary of HHS. These recommendations will be considered, along with public and federal agency comments, as HHS develops the second edition of the Physical Activity Guidelines for […]

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What government entity has failed to a greater extent than the CDC? The agency defines itself as “the nation’s health protection agency.” Its core mission is to prevent the spread of disease, chronic and acute. Take diabetes. Since 1992, the year Congress added Prevention to the CDC’s name, over 28 million adult Americans have been newly diagnosed with diabetes. Judging by the CDC’s own graph, its rededication to chronic disease prevention has coincided with a massive rise in chronic disease. […]

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