Abstract
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and its members have long been committed to improving Americans’ health through effective nutrition care services and by helping people avoid or reduce the dangers of unscientific, medically unnecessary treatment. Yet in the past 8 years alone, special interest groups have sued to overturn constitutionally enacted nutrition and dietetics licensure laws in North Carolina, Florida, and Mississippi. In just the past year, these same special interest groups have hired Washington, DC–based lobbyists to introduce legislation or advocate for laws in more than a dozen states to eviscerate or deny basic public protections against real, demonstrable harm caused by unqualified or incompetent providers.
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