Jan 22, 2023
Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Media Empathy Foundation President Joe Biden's administration appointed Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford, who claimed obesity was mostly genetic and not primarily driven by diet or exercise, to the Biden administration's 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Stanford is one of 20 doctors appointed to the committee, which will examine the relationship between diet and health through a "health equity lens," factoring in socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity and culture, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) website, and provide recommendations to the USDA and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She has claimed that doctors largely do not understand obesity and that many patients can't simply lose weight through improved diet and exercise. (RELATED: 'Methodologically Flawed': Key Studies That Inspired Trans Medicine Don't Hold Up, Doctors Argue) "The number one cause of obesity is gen
