Thank you, Janet. Excellent interview with Taubes. It's easy to see in retrospect how the concept of healthy eating has become so distorted and false:

Interesting comments:

When the government decides to jump in it becomes a free-for-all where businesses will study what the government is recommending and respond. Food manufacturers and Big Pharma are extremely good at understanding and identifying the viable market based on government pronouncements and responding in kind with products supporting the government position. This enables them to get cover from the government in helping to promote their products and protect their business interests. The result is a very powerful symbiotic relationship that when established is almost impossible to argue successfully against or change.

I think of the standards of care that are now part of the treatment protocol for physicians who are bound by insurers and the government to follow regardless of whether they are fact-based or improve health to any degree. This is the dynamic that requires us all to become extremely well informed in order to preserve health and resist recommendations based on faulty and weak science. Today, this dynamic and the requirement to stay informed applies to every facet of our lives.