Conflicting food studies leaving you confused? Giants of the food industry have long been using marketing techniques to influence our dietary choices. There’s much literature on how the food industry has influenced governments’ nutritional guidelines to ensure that their coffers and consumers’ waistlines keep expanding. There’s much reason to surmise that growing cases of childhood obesity and increasing lifestyle diseases such as diabetes are due to an environment where food companies have manipulated food research. Going forward, such food studies should compulsorily disclose their sources of funding.

Source: Times of India September 14, 2016 20:32 UTC