Mike

“Put simply,” concluded a senior director at the George Institute for Global Health, “the enormous commercial success enjoyed by the food industry is now causing what promises to be one of the greatest public health disasters of our time.”
― Michael Greger, How Not to Diet

“This is consistent with the findings of the Deception and Fraud in the Diet Industry hearings in Congress that concluded most programs actively suppress facts about what to expect regarding chances of success. 913”
― Michael Greger, How Not to Diet

“Stigma often removes the cause of death from obituaries when suicide, overdose, or alcoholism is involved. Addiction is seen as a moral weakness, not a disease, and it is believed that its effects are best covered up.”
― Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

“There have been calls for nearly a half century to ban the advertising of sugary cereals to children, which Harvard nutrition professor Jean Mayer referred to as “sugar-coated nothings.” 822 In a Senate hearing on nutrition education, he said, “Properly speaking, they ought to be called cereal-flavored candy, rather than sugar-covered cereals.”
― Michael Greger, How Not to Diet