The food industry employs strategies like lobbying and funding professional associations to influence public health policies.

Tobacco companies, after facing sanctions, bought food companies and are now promoting unhealthy food, which is a significant concern.

The rise in obesity and type 2 diabetes in America correlates with dietary guidelines from the 70s that demonized fats and promoted carbohydrates, leading to increased sugar consumption.

The USDA's dual mandate to promote agriculture and advise on dietary guidelines has resulted in policies that negatively impact public health, such as the promotion of high fructose corn syrup over sugar, and we need to stop subsidizing unhealthy food production and the regulatory practices that force food companies to produce harmful products.

The government’s interference in the food system, particularly through the promotion of high fructose corn syrup, has contributed significantly to public health issues over the past 40 years.

The food industry has successfully convinced Americans that healthy eating is elitist and expensive, despite the reality that eating real food can be affordable and beneficial for health.

Our food policies are largely influenced by the food industry, which has created a system that harms public health.

In the 1950s, Ancel Keys suggested that dietary fat clogs arteries, leading to a recommendation by the American Heart Association to decrease fat consumption, which influenced dietary guidelines like the food pyramid.

The standard American diet, which is high in processed and packaged foods, is detrimental to health, unlike the traditional diets of indigenous peoples that have shown to prevent diseases like diabetes and heart disease.