(I’m joking, mostly.) Not even wild Maine blueberries escape the stain of contamination. The egg industry might also be, or was it dairy? I think Big Pecan is all right, but not Big Macadamia. The book goes on to outline various offenders and offenses in entertaining detail. They also paid seven of the nine authors for their participation the other two were employees of the funders.īut what if the findings of such studies are true? If exercise, chocolate, and almonds are good for health, what is wrong with funding research to prove it? This is a serious question that deserves a serious answer.
But can you guess who paid for this study? The Hershey Company and the Almond Board of California were its funders.
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Late in 2017, the Journal of the American Heart Association published the results of a clinical trial concluding that incorporating dark chocolate and almonds in your diet may reduce your risk of coronary heart disease. Because while drug companies are now required to disclose payments made to physicians, Nestle writes, “nothing close to that level of concern, scrutiny, or action applies to food-company efforts to engage nutrition professionals.” In the pharmaceutical industry, for instance, “the link between drug-industry gifts and prescription practices is so firmly established that it is considered beyond debate.”īut the links and conflicts of interest between the food industry and the world of nutrition professionals are, in Nestle’s telling, perhaps even wilder and more egregiously tangled. Supplement powders, unusual drinks, nasal spray … I don’t always want them, but they’re fun to open and a little painful to throw away, so I’ve been putting a lot of them into the backs of drawers instead, where I can kind of feel them weighing on me.Īs Nestle points out, even the smallest gifts can affect the choices we make. The book also made me think of the unsolicited gifts and packages that I’ve gotten from brands so far here at the Cut. Is the information I base my own diet on objectively true? Did I read the fine print? Do I unwittingly parrot advertisements dressed up as science? (Is science science?) Nutrition writer and NYU professor Marion Nestle’s lively and depressing new book Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat makes me question various things I think I understand about healthy eating, as well as the ways I come across them. I know I’ve Googled, but it doesn’t stick. She was kidding, and we laughed, although to this day I still can’t really say what high-fructose corn syrup is, or how it’s made. When we were in high school, my friend Lucy told us that every day after school, her mother would make her a thick, tall smoothie out of high-fructose corn syrup.
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