More from the Annals of Government Nutrition Guidelines
- Thread starter Marshal Jim Duncan
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Here's the key passage (IMO):
"So while fiddling with the food stamp program is okay, the real problem is that government can’t be trusted to do a good job with health recommendations. Perhaps we should simply take government out of that field altogether. Odds are if we’d done that 50 years ago, a lot of us would be slimmer, and healthier today." (emphasis added)
"So while fiddling with the food stamp program is okay, the real problem is that government can’t be trusted to do a good job with health recommendations. Perhaps we should simply take government out of that field altogether. Odds are if we’d done that 50 years ago, a lot of us would be slimmer, and healthier today." (emphasis added)
The biggest issue is that the food stamp program is run out of the USDA. Who would have thought that the Dept of AGRICULTURE would try to influence nutrition and food guidelines...