The effort to educate and offer healthy choices to consumers is a big enough job. The intrusion of big business and government policy sure does make the job even tougher. Educate yourself about who is funding the research!!
" The organization’s activities, revealed through interviews and records, provide a stark example of inherent conflicts in the Agriculture Department’s historical roles as both marketer of agriculture products and America’s nutrition police.
In one instance, Dairy Management spent millions of dollars on research to support a national advertising campaign promoting the notion that people could lose weight by consuming more dairy products, records and interviews show. The campaign went on for four years, ending in 2007, even though other researchers — one paid by Dairy Management itself — found no such weight-loss benefits. "
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/us/07fat.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha1
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