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"As a result, we have decided to discontinue his contract,"

June 8, 2017 by Kenneth Newton

"As a result, we have decided to discontinue his contract," Kotlikoff said. "We are committed to working with Professor Wansink to ensure that all of his studies are correctly reported, both in the academic and non-academic literature. He has been a valued academic in Cornell's research community and we are committed to supporting him throughout his career."

The retractions come at a time when Wansink continues to push the bounds of what many believe is the most important, foundational, and rigorous review of the evidence available on the subject of obesity. In recent days, the American Medical Association has issued a warning about what it calls the "biggest problem in modern nutrition education‵—that of the diet and exercise-based diet in particular. We urge the American College of Nutrition and Dietetics to publish its own review (and more) of the evidence and to review the current recommendations of the American College of Research on the effects of exercise and diet in weight management and prevention." Wansink, a former professor of dietetics at the University of New Hampshire, has been a critical critic of the current recommendations of the American College of Research on the effects of exercise and diet in weight management and prevention. In March, the American College of Nutrition and Dietetics released an article entitled, "Weight management: Are the Benefits of Weight-Minimizing Exercise, Weight-Dieting, and Dieting Supplements Harmful?" that outlined the potential for the proposed changes to the current recommendations of the American College of Research on the effects of exercise and diet in weight management and prevention:

"The American College of Nutrition and Dietetics has a longstanding policy of providing extensive, rigorous, and unbiased reviews of randomized controlled trials of weight management and weight-management interventions, including a systematic review as well as a review by independent researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

A recent analysis published in JAMA indicates that "the potential benefits of exercise and weight-management interventions are significant in the short term, but at a higher risk for adverse health consequences. The potential harms of weight management are significant in the long-term, but their long-term effects are limited and are less well known.

"In addition, the current evidence does not support weight-management as a major contributor to obesity and weight-dieting, and the current evidence does not support weight-loss as a risk factor for obesity and weight-dieting.

"The American College of Research on exercise and weight management (ACRID