Food Industry Nutrition Influence

Possibly an idea promoted by breakfast cereal manufacturers. Dietary recommendations are corrupted by industry.

Stuff the food industry doesn't want us to know.

This is a very cynical take.Companies are full of people. Those people want to do good things and want to help others.There are plenty of companies who sell vegetables, fruits, free-range eggs and beef, meal replacement shakes with full spectrum of macros & micros, packed foods for vegetarians, keto, paleo eaters.It's not particularly companies fault that someone buys a cheeseburger instead of omelette with tomatoes or whole grain sandwich with turkey & lettuce. Options are

Here's a conjecture - "Sugar" is a product. There is an industry and a lobby for that. Fat is not really a single product (meat, edible oil, chocolate etc.), so probably there was no single lobby which could co-ordinate the effort. Now there is a lot of effort from the meat industry to promote particular diets, so that's perhaps a form of "pushback".

> Let's cheer for the latest fad of the industry of the annual fad, who has made the planet obese, churning increasingly nutrient-less [1], and taste-less [2] food-stuff to our tables, all the while sponsoring spin research ("breakfast is the most important meal of the day", "fat is bad for you", etc).Well, the industry cannot be blamed for what is ultimately the consumer's fault in uncritically adopting strange beliefs about food, as hilariously demonstrated

Depending of what you call "conspiracy". Does US Government promoting disastrous nutritional advice for decades and pushing the food industry to produce what we now recognize as extremely unhealthy products qualify as "conspiracy"? Does reluctance of the industry to recognize just how bad those are because they sell extremely well and some are likely to be physiologically and psychologically addictive - constitute a "conspiracy"? Maybe not, since it happens in the o

Do you go to grandma every day to eat calory packed food? Does grandma deploy dozens of scientists who design food so that it has an addicting effect? Dozens of marketing experts who confront you with images to consume the junk? Lobbyists who try to convince that sugar is not causing health problems? Your analogy does not work. These corporations are creating products that cause massive health issues that cost society billions.

You're not taking into account the dairy, meat, sugar, and corn lobbies. They are at least partially responsible for the diet and lifestyle of the lower-consciousness population.

I was referring to concepts presented in "The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite" by David Kessler.Of course, I wouldn't expect a lot of people on HN to agree, thus the down-votes.A lot of the food industry is based on pumping the salt, sugar and fat so that we eat/buy more. So people focused on making money are more likely to side with Taubes (even if he's wrong) than with Kessler.If I could down vote this thread, I would.

Fake news, sorry.Also unethical. Big Food would like nothing more that to get you addicted to expensive sugary food products. (Cheapest to make, most expensive to buy, and with an addiction to boost sales.)