It’s also about cost control...in Uncle Sam’s mind, if he’s going to fund Medicare and Obamacare, then he believes that he has a vested interest in forcing people to be healthy so that he can ration it.
It’s also about cost control...in Uncle Sam’s mind, if he’s going to fund Medicare and Obamacare, then he believes that he has a vested interest in forcing people to be healthy so that he can ration it.
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That’s true. That’s the excuse. But, like many if not most government initiatives, what is achieved is the opposite of the intended goal. In this case we have traded a slim, healthy population for a fat unhealthy one and that is certainly due in part to government nutritional guidelines.
It’s about const control, in that low-fat, high-carb foods are cheap to make, and store well.
The primary driver behind the nutritional recommendations is how much it would cost the government to meet their own guidelines.