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The story of how the most basic questions about what to eat ever got so complicated reveals a great deal about the institutional imperatives of the food industry, nutritional science and — ahem — journalism, three parties that stand to gain much from widespread confusion surrounding what is, after all, the most elemental question an omnivore confronts.

 Long but interesting article. I hadn’t really thought about the point that I eat less of a high quality food than I do of a poor quality product—it sounds counterintuitive, but it’s definitely true for chocolate.