New York Residents: Tell Your Legislators to Protect Your Access to Qualified Nutrition Professionals!

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New York Residents: Tell Your Legislators to Protect Your Access to Qualified Nutrition Professionals!

A bill in the New York legislature (SB 4999 and AB 1388) would reserve the right to practice medical nutrition therapy exclusively for Registered Dieticians (RDs).

This bill would limit your access to highly qualified nutritional professionals—including Certified Nutrition Specialists (CNSs)—by arbitrarily giving preference to RDs. CNSs are some of the most highly educated and well-respected professionals in the field of nutrition. In fact, the CNS credential requires Master’s degree at a minimum; many CNSs hold doctoral degrees in nutrition.

SB 4999 is now being considered by the Senate Finance Committee. Please contact your state legislators today and ask them not to support this monopolistic bill!

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As a concerned constituent, I am asking you to vote NO on SB 4999 and AB 1388. I understand the bill is currently with the Senate Finance Committee. Please ask your colleagues who serve on the committee not to support this bill.

SB 4999 and AB 1388 will limit my access to highly qualified nutrition professionals by creating an exclusive monopoly in nutrition counseling for the Academy for Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), the organization that pushed for the bill's introduction on behalf of its membership (Registered Dietitians, or RDs). Further, this bill misinforms the public as to who is a qualified nutrition provider by suggesting that RDs are more qualified than other nutrition professionals. This is demonstrably untrue!

RDs are credentialed by the Commission on Dietetic Registration, a private organization. "Registered Dietitian" is not a government-based credential, so there is no reason it should be awarded preferential treatment over other credentialing organizations -- particularly when it excludes those who possess Masters' and PhDs in nutrition from accredited colleges and universities, as well as professionals qualified by other worthy nutrition credentialing organizations.

It is difficult to believe that the AND is qualified to address our obesity crisis, considering their widely known conflicts of interest: AND receives funding from junk food companies like Coca-Cola, Hershey, Council, Mars, and PepsiCo -- the very agents of the obesity epidemic.

Furthermore, they conduct continuing education courses sponsored by Coke in which RDs are told that sugar, artificial colors, and nonnutritive sweeteners are perfectly fine for children, and concerns to the contrary are merely "urban myths"!

Access to a variety of nutrition professionals is vital to consumers: it allows them to choose a practitioner who aligns with their natural health lifestyle and values. With obesity as epidemic and as costly as it is, why should only one organization's nutrition professionals be given the exclusive right to counsel patients on ways to treat it?

Please vote NO on SB 4999 and AB 1388, and please encourage your colleagues not to support this bill.

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