Message #40748

[mccoy]

Eric, to tell the truth, I'm not very much interested into the politics and lobbying of food companies. Of course, the big food companies are trying to boost their sales, sometimes in a deceitful manner. They do it everywhere, here in Italy including, and they've been doing it for decades.

The basic message of Dr. Hyman is obvious and is directed to people who are illiterate about food, who've been eating mainly the SAD (standard American diet) made up of junk food prevalently.

I'm sorry if maybe that's not what you wanted to discuss first, but I'm more interested about what to do in practice. The food companies exists, they make profit and I couldn't care less because I'm not sponsoring them, unless they provide some really healthy food. They cannot escape the obligations of reporting components in labels, lest consumers associations sue them for millions or billions of dollars. So they employ subtle ways of deception, leveraging the dietary ignorance of people.

The quiz points: most of them may be true or false. I can understand the narrative chosen by Dr. Hyman but I do not agree necessarily on coconut oil and saturated fats.