Food quackery is the new medical quackery. A huge industry has been built on selling snake oil foods to consumers that don't know any better. Like the age of m

Food quackery is the new medical quackery. A huge industry has been built on selling snake oil foods to consumers that don't know any better. Like the age of medical quackery, the reason this all exists is because people simply aren't educated about their nutritional needs. They rely on bloggers and advertisements to tell them what to eat, and that is often disastrous. It shouldn't be this hard to educate the population about nutrition, and it's made worse by excessive lobbying by the food industry. The food pyramid was heavily influenced by lobbying, and the role of sugar in obesity was downplayed significantly. As a result, the obesity rate keeps growing higher and higher, giving more fuel to the food quackery industry.