We let the food industry educate the public and when they do so in a way that prioritizes their profit, we then hope to counter their influence on consumer behavior through poorly funded, low production-value, hardly compelling public health programming.
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Infuriated, I sat at my desk, reading yet another poll by the dairy
industry investigating nutrition trends. This one specifically
surveyed a thousand parents on their views and “confidence” around
what they should be feeding their children.
As someone who loves research, I took some deep breaths to calm down
my agitated sympathetic nervous system and decided to look at some
“evidence” this poll had unearthed.
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In a nutshell, this is the problem we face in this country in regards to health education. We let the food industry educate the public and when they do so in a way that prioritizes their profit, we then hope to counter their influence on consumer behavior through poorly funded, low production-value, hardly compelling public health programming.
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Read the ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE (PDF).