Why is Nutrition so Commercialized?

Why is the field of nutrition often more about marketing products than educating people about the fundamentals of healthy eating?

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This is part of my extended video series on the reductionist trap. See, for example, Reductionism and the Deficiency Mentality ( Previous videos that touch on the topic include on Industry Response to Plants Not Pills ( and Is the Fiber Theory Wrong? (

The Five to One Fiber Rule ( still holds, though, since it’s an indication of how heavily processed a product is.

There are two sides to the intellectual property argument when it comes to food. I explore both in Plants as Intellectual Property – Patently Wrong? (

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-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

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