"Why Uncle Sam is a horrible nutritionist".

It is very much like the problem with global warming. The government is the deep pocket
guy with all the power and people who believe in these popular myths gravitate to
government jobs that allow them to mandate their views on everyone. We will never lose
the food crazies or the AGW crazies but if the government would stop meddling in these
issues they would be marginalized. There is no possibility that any government
organization could ever agree on a correct and reasonable diet or even on what is bad for
you. The problem is that government and almost every large organization uses a
methodology of committees, compromise and political influence. This methodology is
gauranteed to at best produce mediocrity and at worst produce tyranny and oppression. It
produces the results you would expect from a committee of wolves and lambs deciding
what toeat for dinner. It is a system that can never produce something good except by
accident or conspiracy.