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To generate truly meaningful dietary guidelines, future committees must start from scratch as well. To continue to make modifications to an inherently flawed foundation composed of weak epidemiological associations, biased assumptions, and arbitrarily-chosen dietary patterns will not significantly improve the quality of the final product. We need a more diverse, less entrenched, more scientifically rigorous committee that openly declares its personal, professional, and financial biases. There is nothing inherently wrong with bias—all humans have their biases—it is in acknowledging them that we stay honest with ourselves and others about our blind spots.

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