ADA (Dietitians) Monopoly
 View your state’s licensing status | Monopoly Over Nutritional Therapy Overview ANH-USA advocates for access and choice—to ensure consumers have unencumbered access to health care treatments and ensure practitioners have the autonomy to practice in a manner that is truly in the best interest of his/her patient. Unfortunately, legislation has been passed in numerous states that impedes an individual’s right to access highly qualified nutritional therapists of their choice due to restrictive and unnecessary legislation that prohibits hundreds of qualified practitioners from providing nutritional therapy. |
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 | American Dietetic Association Speeds up its Race for Monopoly The ADA is starting 2012 on the attack by introducing bills in four states and preparing for more—trying to sew up a legally enforced national monopoly before opposition can mount. Action Alerts! Stop the Dietitian Monopoly in |
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| ADA Claims We’re Lying. So Why Can’t They Rebut a Single Thing We Said | |
 | November 14, 2011 They call our statements “erroneous,” “ridiculous,” “untruths,” “falsehoods,” and “outright lies,” but each of our “wild accusations” are solidly documented! |
| New Campaign Seeks to Make Big Changes at the American Dietetic Association—RDs Speak Out! | |
 | November 8, 2011 Registered Dietitians are tired of their organization being financed by the junk food industry and Big Pharma. Now they’re starting to speak out. |
| Dietitians Are Buying Coke’s Line: Sugar, Fluoride, Artificial Colors are SAFE for Children! | |
 | June 14, 2011 We wish we could say we are surprised. Registered dietitians are now being given formal education by the Coca-Cola Company on how safe its ingredients are. |
| How the American Dietetic Association is Strengthening its Monopoly | |
 | May 10, 2011 The ADA is clever. It gets legislation passed under the radar, when no one is looking. And natural health nutritionists are getting a rotten deal. |
| The War for Nutrition Science Integrity | |
 | November 23, 2010 One nutrition organization looks to be in the pocket of Big Pharma and the worst of the junk food manufacturers. Another organization has been a more independent voice for nutrition. Guess which one is attempting to swallow the other? |
| Playing Monopoly With Our Health | |
 | June 22, 2010 The American Dietetic Association (ADA) wants to create a monopoly on state nutritional licensure. This organization—which lists among its corporate sponsors soft drink giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, cereal manufacturers General Mills and Kellogg’s, candy maker Mars, and Unilever, the multinational corporation that owns many of the world’s consumer products brands in foods and beverages—already has a stranglehold on who can dispense nutritional counseling at the state level. |
| Press Release, July 17, 2009 | |
| American Dietetic Association Seeks Monopoly over Nutritional Therapy | |
| Urgent—Licensure of Dietitians and Nutritionists in Michigan—Vote is Tomorrow, May 13! | |
| May 12, 2009 The Michigan Board of Dietetics and Nutrition is in the process of creating the rules to implement the bill on licensure of dietitians and nutritionists in the state of Michigan. A vote is set for May 13, and we are asking members in Michigan to contact the Board immediately. AAHF is asking the Board to include other reputable credentialing agencies to ensure that other highly qualified professionals are able to practice nutritional therapy in Michigan. | |
