Huh? A presidential report? No, thanks. Between this administration’s inability to do *anything* right, and the generally abysmal health and nutrition advice the government has increasing dished out the last century, it’s time to leave the table and to borrow a phrase from my third grade son, “use our own noodle”. Many people *are* trying to follow the recommendations and they are losing their health for it. Chronic degenerative diseases are increasing even in children and the advice is just getting worse. No one seems to notice that the advice is dished out, but little to no evidence that any of it works.

It’s a national scandal how many billions of dollars have gone down the drain chasing misbegotten health and nutrition theories, i.e., low fat, high carb, cut out red meat, eat soy, more polyunsaturated oils, replace butter with margerine, there’s no such thing as a bad food, part of a “balanced” diet, study people’s diets with highly inaccurate and unscientific self-reported questionaires, looking for correlation and reporting it as causation, and so forth. They’ve sent us down so many wrong paths and blame us for not following closely enough. Oh please!

When is someone going to say “the Emperor has no clothes” and they’ve gotten a heck of a lot of it wrong? I’m holding out hope that Gary Taubes’ new book will shake the sleep out of people’s eyes and start people thinking for their own again. I don’t know who else can. There are a LOT of health care professionals, government officials, lobbyists, activists, corporations, and nutritionists who have some things to answer for.