Entire industries thrive on the propagation of the myth that everything about nutrition, and the obesity that attends it when we get it wrong, is shrouded in mystery. … As long as everyone is perennially caught up in the great mysteries of eating well and controlling weight, there is a next story to run, and a next, in the service of edification (i.e., comforting the afflicted), or obfuscation (i.e., afflicting the comfortable), whichever is more profitable.
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