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What is the best resource that shows the food industry's influence on nutrition? I have read many examples like the dairy council funding studies that show dairy is healthy but what is the best resource showing that these food companies really do skew things for the public?

I don't know if you would consider this a good resource, but Dr. Harris talks in this hour long video about funding. Somewhere in there at around 35 minutes or so he shows the old food pyramid with recommendations with grains and vegetables and fruits at the base and meat and dairy higher up, then shows that despite the healthier foods being recommended, the great majority of the funding is for meat and dairy. Fruits and vegetables get hardly any.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_qoZEYWzGg#t=51m40s

The Harvard school of nutrition was started with a 20 million dollar donation from the meat and dairy industry.

The purpose of the USDA is to promote meat and dairy. It was they who worked with one of those pizza places to come up with the cheese in the crust pizza in order to promote higher consumption of cheese. Etc.

Didi

Check out these reviews, meta analysis and editorials. They explain the skewing of the dairy industry

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/c ... 3/736.long
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article ... ool=pubmed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1602030/
http://www.ajcn.org/content/72/3/681.long
http://www.ajcn.org/content/41/2/254.long

The Center for Science in the Public Interest has an Integrity in Science website that lets you search by company, industry, university or researcher and see where the money for a project really comes from. Want to know who took money from the dairy industry or Monsanto? This is the place to find out.

http://www.cspinet.org/integrity/

Kate

Here is another clip from dr.harris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3tLm086bD4#t=26m40s

didi

This is an official article published in a recent law journal about the influence of the food industry.

http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2010nl/ ... n.indd.pdf

In Health
Jeff

Great resources. Thank you everyone!