{"id":121456,"date":"2021-04-12T09:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T16:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/why-is-nutrition-so-damned-confusing"},"modified":"2021-04-12T09:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T16:22:17","slug":"why-is-nutrition-so-damned-confusing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/why-is-nutrition-so-damned-confusing","title":{"rendered":"Why is Nutrition So Damned Confusing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-is-nutrition-so-damned-confusing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Food is big business.<\/p>\n<p>In the U.S., the weight-loss industry is worth $78 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Meat is worth $218 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Sugar processing is worth $11 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Soybeans are worth $65 billion.<\/p>\n<p>As a point of comparison, the U.S. cigarette industry is worth about $50 billion.<\/p>\n<p>We are kidding ourselves if we think that corporate interests have no effect on nutrition research. For example, Coca-Cola spent \u201c$132.8 million on scientific research and partnerships over a five-year period\u201d from 2010 to 2015 as a part of a campaign to absolve sweetened beverages of contributing to America\u2019s obesity epidemic. (And it worked.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/why-is-nutrition-so-damned-confusing\">Continue reading \u201cWhy is Nutrition So Damned Confusing?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food is big business. In the U.S., the weight-loss industry is worth $78 billion. Meat is worth $218 billion. Sugar processing is worth $11 billion. Soybeans are worth $65 billion. As a point of comparison, the U.S. cigarette industry is worth about $50 billion. We are kidding ourselves if we think that corporate interests have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}