Milking the Nutrition Cow

The more things change the more they stay the same, that can be said about the musical chair game of promoting whats best for us in the way of diet. If the FDA puts a stamp of approval on a product or tells us to avoid a product the food companies get busy perpetuating that concept. The purpose is of course to make money, the problem is whats good for you today may not be tomorrow. Without shouting from the mountain top my age I can take you back though some diet recommendation I remember that would be disturbing to say the least by today’s standards. The seventies and the eighties advertisements were riddled with making life easy through science and technology. With any mention of a food being good for you the market would go into a frenzy promoting that product, if the product could be altered and patented, well now not that's all the better! Yep putting big money into something like “I can't believe it's not butter” was at one time the way to go. Today to promote a food product as artificial would be advertisement suicide. The trans-fat ingredients found in margarine and frying products of the past are now are now being revamped with green labeling as products that carry zero trans-fats and all natural ingredients taken right from natures kitchen. However the fact still remains; millions of Americans bought into that claim literally and the affects have been devastating. Just Google the effects of trans-fats in the diet. I remember distinctly as a child watching television commercials with margarine talking on a kitchen table to butter, taunting butter about how bad it was. How many can finish the Advertisement jingle “Everything's better with......” I could mention other scenario's like promoting cows milk over mothers milk or saccharine and aspartame as great substitutes for sugar, however what's most important is to remember our health is worth making an inquiry about the product before feeding it to our families. With information at our finger tips we can research apposing views on any subject. NPeace