Junk Food Takes a Hit

New U.S. diet guidelines offer (mostly) good advice

You may not care what the government tells you to eat, but you can bet that the $640 billion-a-year food industry pays close attention. So a lot of behind-the-scenes squabbling preceded last week's release by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services of a new set of 10 national nutrition guidelines.

One guideline, for example, was supposed to read "choose beverages and foods that limit your intake of sugars." But after challenges from the sugar industry and a letter of protest to Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman from 30 Senators, the USDA and HHS decided to...

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