I was surprised by a blog posting that I read this morning. A college-aged student from BYU was making fun of the government telling Americans to "eat less." The idea was that it's sort of big brother-esque to have the government telling us what to eat now. Little does he know that the government has been releasing dietary guidelines for many years. The funny thing (or not so funny) was that he made a joke about your mom being fat, then said he had no idea that your mom was fat (mine is not, actually), when the likelihood is that most moms are fat, as are most adults in the US (2/3). Sad. So, yeah, I'd say we do need the government telling us what to eat, just as we would want the government to give us direction about responding to any other disaster that is killing 2/3 of the country.
HHS released the newest dietary guidelines at an event at GW yesterday. Here's the link.
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