Good article by Nina Teicholz.The top scientist guiding the U.S. government’s nutrition recommendations made an admission last month that would surprise most Americans. Low-fat diets, Alice Lichtenstein said, are “probably not a good idea.” It was a rare public acknowledgment conceding the failure of the basic principle behind 35 years of official American nutrition advice.
Yet the experts now designing the next set of dietary recommendations remain mired in the same anti-fat bias and soft science that brought us the low-fat diet in the first place. This is causing them to ignore a large body of rigorous scientific evidence that represents our best hope in fighting the epidemics of obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/nina-tei ... 1414536989
These people with the central government are of the same ilk as those who want to manage all of our healthcare. You can keep your doctor. You can keep your insurance. You will save $2500 every year on insurance.