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Give Fruit a Chance

There are several reasons why these misleading ideas about fruit have spread around society. The most obvious one is competition. Fruit competes against every other food category, and is a constant target for critics who benefit from damaging its reputation. The more fruit we consume the less food we will consume from competing groups, such as processed foods and animal products.

In addition, fruits are a reliable tool for health and healing. The more we use them to take care of our illnesses and disease, the less money we’ll spend on expensive pharmaceuticals, doctor visits, surgeries and health insurance. Few people on the medical field recognize the power of food as medicine. The irony is that it was Hippocrates, the Greek physician known as the father of medicine, who said: “Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food”.

We also know about companies in the dairy, egg, and meat industries, that corrupted politicians and medical professionals, to misinform the public. Over the past decades they spent countless resources, including taxpayer’s money, to downplay the benefits of fruit, and the dangers of animal products and processed foods. Through the process of lobbying, unethical companies give millions of dollars to policy makers and regulatory agencies, to influence their actions and the information they share with the public. This is one of the main factors contributing the decline in health across nations, especially in the United States.

One of the most obvious examples of the corruption that has taken place in the U.S. government for decades, regarding public information about food, is the insertion of dairy as a recommended food group by the USDA nutritional guidelines. By placing enough dairy industry representatives in the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, the dairy industry controlled the number of votes required to pass certain guidelines.

We also know about the egg industry board paying millions in grants to remove life saving cholesterol limits from USDA guidelines. People like Dr. Neal Bernard, and organizations such as The Physicians Committee, are fighting this fraud and have sued the U.S. government for letting industries with special interest have a say on the information given to the public. (1)

There are other examples of businesses in the food industry using their financial power to control the information given to the public, and influence their dietary choices. Their focus is on maximizing profits, and are careless about people’s health and the global environment. That is why it is important for the public to learn about the truth found via independent research.

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