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There are two important authorities in the USA concerned with nutrition and dietetics:
AND: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
CDR: Commission on Dietetic Registration

Together they possess a monopoly on dietary advice to the population and government and the validation and registration of all dietitians in the USA..
Their advice has been almost completely wrong since their inception and work to repeat false, dangerous and mainstream nonsense. And whilst the obecity and diabetic crisis grows, these bodies conintue to spew the same old advice.

One would have thought that two such important bodies were untouchable, and funded indirectly by government and gained their authority under the aegis of the Federal Government.

It is simply beyond my imagination to learn that these are not government bodies, but self serving, self justifying, self administring, and self governing bodies.
What is more bizarre is that such bodies are allowed to practice through funding from: Nat. cattleman Ass, Quaker, Gatorade, Splenda, Danone, Nestles, and many other "interested parties.
AND in particular is heavily funded from Coca-Cola and MAC FUCKING DONALDS!!!!

It's no wonder the USA is the fattest country on earth.
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It's no wonder the USA is the fattest country on earth.
How fat are you?
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reasonvemotion wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 10:51 pm by Sculptor
It's no wonder the USA is the fattest country on earth.
How fat are you?
Fatter than I should be why?
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Are you American?
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reasonvemotion wrote: Sat Feb 26, 2022 12:03 am Are you American?
It was Americans who discovered how to achieve maximum population fatness in the shortest amount of time, and they passed this 'useful knowledge' onto the rest of the planet.
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Oh absolutely, and the idea was really quite brilliant. Especially the fast food industrialists. The question for capitalists wuz: how can we make easy money off the American working classes. Then the thought occured. We have a nation of people with too little time (cuz they're always working) and/or money (cuz they're paid so little) to obtain and/or prepare healthy food for consumption... so what we'll do is create a market of cheap, ready made food items dunked and fried in fat that can be purchased and eaten in less than sixty seconds flat. We'll pay our restaurant workers minimum wage so we can still profit from selling a cheeseburger for just a dollar. Our restaurants will be managed by middle aged Ford escort driving losers who will hire and fire the weekly influx of irresponsible and unambitious teenagers who hate their job and do terribly at keeping the place clean... which won't matter because the health inspector, who also hates his job, will walk not halfway around the kitchen, give it a A minus score, and get the hell outta there and back to the office where he can sit his ass down for the rest of the day.
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Sculptor wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 8:38 pm There are two important authorities in the USA concerned with nutrition and dietetics:
AND: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
CDR: Commission on Dietetic Registration

Together they possess a monopoly on dietary advice to the population and government and the validation and registration of all dietitians in the USA..
Their advice has been almost completely wrong since their inception and work to repeat false, dangerous and mainstream nonsense. And whilst the obecity and diabetic crisis grows, these bodies conintue to spew the same old advice.

One would have thought that two such important bodies were untouchable, and funded indirectly by government and gained their authority under the aegis of the Federal Government.

It is simply beyond my imagination to learn that these are not government bodies, but self serving, self justifying, self administring, and self governing bodies.
What is more bizarre is that such bodies are allowed to practice through funding from: Nat. cattleman Ass, Quaker, Gatorade, Splenda, Danone, Nestles, and many other "interested parties.
AND in particular is heavily funded from Coca-Cola and MAC FUCKING DONALDS!!!!

It's no wonder the USA is the fattest country on earth.
It's been quipped in the past that PBS (public broadcasting system) in the US should rather be named the "Petroleum Broadcasting System" given the number of sponsors of theirs that were big-name oil companies. Not sure if that is still the case or not.
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Gary Childress wrote: Sun Feb 27, 2022 4:44 pm
Sculptor wrote: Fri Feb 25, 2022 8:38 pm There are two important authorities in the USA concerned with nutrition and dietetics:
AND: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
CDR: Commission on Dietetic Registration

Together they possess a monopoly on dietary advice to the population and government and the validation and registration of all dietitians in the USA..
Their advice has been almost completely wrong since their inception and work to repeat false, dangerous and mainstream nonsense. And whilst the obecity and diabetic crisis grows, these bodies conintue to spew the same old advice.

One would have thought that two such important bodies were untouchable, and funded indirectly by government and gained their authority under the aegis of the Federal Government.

It is simply beyond my imagination to learn that these are not government bodies, but self serving, self justifying, self administring, and self governing bodies.
What is more bizarre is that such bodies are allowed to practice through funding from: Nat. cattleman Ass, Quaker, Gatorade, Splenda, Danone, Nestles, and many other "interested parties.
AND in particular is heavily funded from Coca-Cola and MAC FUCKING DONALDS!!!!

It's no wonder the USA is the fattest country on earth.
It's been quipped in the past that PBS (public broadcasting system) in the US should rather be named the "Petroleum Broadcasting System" given the number of sponsors of theirs that were big-name oil companies. Not sure if that is still the case or not.
I would not immediately point the finger at PBS, since all channels and media outlets are far from unbiased.
But its been a long time since I watched PBS stateside (1981), so not sure what they are up to there.
BBS in the UK was once cherished for journalistic credibility but governments have sucessively interfered.
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reasonvemotion wrote: Sat Feb 26, 2022 12:03 am Are you American?
Semi-
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Sculptor wrote:
"Semi".
American/British?

For a start, the rise in obesity in the US mirrors that of the UK, but one thing that is clear in high income countries is that, despite decades of economic growth, obesity disproportionately affects the poor - the "poverty-obesity paradox" (Hruschka and Han, 2017)

Unfortunately, poor people have plenty of other things that worry them more than being overweight.
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