A Political Lesson on the Power of the Food Industry
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2019-07-09

The amazing story about what lobbying millions can do to shut down efforts to protect children.

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I am all in favor of Taking Personal Responsibility for Your Health (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/taking-personal-responsibility-for-your-health/), but the strong-arm tobacco-style tactics of the multi-trillion dollar food industry are contributing to the deaths of an estimated 14 million people every year.

I’ve talked about this before in videos such as: 
• Food Industry-Funded Research Bias (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/food-industry-funded-research-bias/)
• Big Food Using the Tobacco Industry Playbook (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/big-food-using-the-tobacco-industry-playbook)
• Controversy Over the Trans Fat Ban (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Controversy-Over-the-Trans-Fat-Ban)
• How the Dairy Industry Designs Misleading Studies (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-the-dairy-industry-designs-misleading-studies)
• The Food Industry Wants the Public Confused About Nutrition (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-food-industry-wants-the-public-confused-about-nutrition/)

And specifically about sugar in Sugar Industry Attempts to Manipulate the Science (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/sugar-industry-attempts-to-manipulate-the-science).

This is part of an on-going series I’m creating about breakfast cereals, and is a follow-up to The Worst Food for Tooth Decay (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-worst-food-for-tooth-decay/). Are there any healthy cereals? A few make the cut. See The Five-to-One Fiber Rule (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-five-to-one-fiber-rule/).

Keep your eyes out for the next sugar video, coming out in a few weeks: How to Stop Tooth Decay. 

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