Seems simple enough to get the right foods. Ask your doctor or your pharmacy. Right? Or get an official government report. That will tell you surely? After all, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Department of Agriculture (USDA) have hundreds of scientists working to formulate Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and they spend multi-millions of our tax dollars each year on this work. To quote the US Government, these guidelines are, the cornerstone of Federal nutrition policy.
It is obligatory for all physicians, dieticians, hospitals, health centers, and anyone else who gets, and wants to continue getting, government money to follow and recommend these guidelines. They are repeated in the nutrition information in every pharmacy. To avoid government umbrage, they also form the basis of mass-produced food advertising. They are all dead wrong!
As I have documented repeatedly,2-5 official nutrition guidelines are formulated not to support health but to support commerce. Despite all the scientific reports, and the protestations of independence by the scientists involved, their real findings rarely get beyond the laboratory. More than 90% of the information that gets to the public, is carefully written by bureaucrats, so that it promotes the dairy, cereal, meat, and pharmaceutical lobbies, whose political contributions ensure that only those sympathetic to their causes become elected officials.
