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That reminds me of a researcher, I think his full name is Frank Hu, from Harvard (I think he is in the Public Health division). It's been a while since I looked him up, but I have a college background in food science and nutrition. Hu published findings contrary to the establishment's "party line" with regard to carbohydrates. At the turn of the millenium, the food science & nutrition party line on carbohydrates was to eat more of them (at the expense of fat and possibly even of protein), and to not worry so much about the quality of the carbohydrates. Frank published research showing that even potatoes -- loaded with healthy nutrients such as potassium -- can actually be bad for you. I'm sure that that made a lot of the establishment upset.
Not to mention how his name looks when you abbreviate it for citation purposes:
"F. Hu"
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Ed
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The [obesity] epidemic was caused by the overproduction of food in the United States. Beginning in the 1970s, there was a change in national agricultural policy. Instead of the government paying farmers not to engage in full production, as was the practice, they were encouraged to grow as much food as they could. At the same time, technological changes and the 'green revolution' made our farms much more productive. The price of food plummeted, while the number of calories available to the average American grew by about 1,000 a day.
