NIH-Funded "Food Pyramid" Rates Lucky Charms Healthier Than Steak
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40% of Americans are obese, 71.6% of adults over 20 are overweight, and and for the first time in decades, life expectancy is falling due to chronic illness. wtf is going on?
I just read through Tufts’ methodology for their health rating. I don’t think you have to blame a Big Food funding conspiracy to see what’s going on: it’s just another incompetent GIGO model. Garbage In, Garbage Out, with a ton of oversimplification. It fails to scale various attributes by health impact (which ultimately varies wildly by person anyway). It doesn’t appear to penalize natural sugar content (hence the high rating for orange juice). Lots of other problems, which when all cranked through a computer model result in obviously flawed results. It so fails the sniff test that Tufts’ failure to have a basic qc and supervision function is a sad reflection on the state of higher education in general.
I think its worth asking, why are there so many people who are happy to harm others for money? Seems we have a money at any cost, above humanity society and it doesn’t bode well for the future.
Clearly the public health agencies have been captured by big business interests. They should be defunded as they no longer protect and serve the public.
You can’t make money off of healthy people.
I just read through Tufts’ methodology for their health rating. I don’t think you have to blame a Big Food funding conspiracy to see what’s going on: it’s just another incompetent GIGO model. Garbage In, Garbage Out, with a ton of oversimplification. It fails to scale various attributes by health impact (which ultimately varies wildly by person anyway). It doesn’t appear to penalize natural sugar content (hence the high rating for orange juice). Lots of other problems, which when all cranked through a computer model result in obviously flawed results. It so fails the sniff test that Tufts’ failure to have a basic qc and supervision function is a sad reflection on the state of higher education in general.
You can go all the way back to Dr. Frederick Stare of Tufts School of Nutrition.
Funded by General Mills he issued the then seminal study on the nutritious values to be found in Cheerios!
This horseshit has been pedaled for decades.
Where is 60 Minutes when you need them?
I think its worth asking, why are there so many people who are happy to harm others for money? Seems we have a money at any cost, above humanity society and it doesn’t bode well for the future.
Corporations scraping the bottom of the proverbial barrel to get money wherever they can, at the expense of human life.
They can’t get away with this in places like Japan or Europe (afaik), so America is it.
Here in Japan, schools receive lunches packed with carbs and protein and nutrients from different veges. From natural foods.
I don’t see any overweight kids here.
Every time I think we've found the bottom, welp, I'm wrong.
Clearly the public health agencies have been captured by big business interests. They should be defunded as they no longer protect and serve the public.