Friday Favorite: A Political Lesson on the Power of the Food Industry

Date: 2024-09-13 11:59:46

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Hear the unbelievable story about what lobbying millions can do to shut down efforts to protect children.

I’m all in favor of Taking Personal Responsibility for Your Health (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/taking-personal-responsibility-for-your-health/), but the strong-arm Big Tobacco-style tactics of the multitrillion-dollar food industry are contributing to the deaths of an estimated 14 million people every year.

I’ve talked about this before in videos such as:
• Food Industry-Funded Research Bias (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/food-industry-funded-research-bias/)
• Big Food Using the Tobacco Industry Playbook (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/big-food-using-the-tobacco-industry-playbook)
• Controversy Over the Trans Fat Ban (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Controversy-Over-the-Trans-Fat-Ban)
• How the Dairy Industry Designs Misleading Studies (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-the-dairy-industry-designs-misleading-studies)
• The Food Industry Wants the Public Confused About Nutrition (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-food-industry-wants-the-public-confused-about-nutrition/)

And specifically about sugar in Sugar Industry Attempts to Manipulate the Science (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/sugar-industry-attempts-to-manipulate-the-science).

This is part of an ongoing series I’m creating about breakfast cereals and is a follow-up to The Worst Food for Tooth Decay (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-worst-food-for-tooth-decay/) and How to Stop Tooth Decay (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-stop-tooth-decay).

Are there any healthy cereals? A few make the cut. See The Five-to-One Fiber Rule (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-five-to-one-fiber-rule/).

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-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

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