[emodendroket]

The food industry has a significant number of people employed whose whole job is to make you think foods are healthier than they are and get you to eat more of them. I mean it's not by accident that almost every food in the supermarket ended up with some health claims on the box (my favorite examples of this are, like, "natural" eggs and "gluten-free" meats).

That's assuming you're buying your own food; if you're eating in a restaurant or something you don't even really know what you are consuming.

[bb85]

Interesting, so I guess it's an education problem?

I guess just like real-talk sex-ed went against the interest of big-church, teaching some basics when it comes to nutrition would hurt a lot of big-food...

[emodendroket]

I don't think it's just that, although many have found it suspect that the dairy industry gave a lot of funding that helped the development of the original food pyramid with dairy as a core food group.

To me it's more like the current environment, to borrow a programming term, makes it difficult to "fall into the pit of success."

The NYT ran a great article on this a few years ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary...