It seems that almost every week there is new information in the media about “nutrition”. Whether it is a new diet plan or a newly discovered isolated gene or a nutrient that squelches your appetite, the factoid becomes big news for a little while, maybe a book gets written about it and then it goes on the shelf with all of the other “diet” and “nutritional” information from weeks and years past. For the typical consumer it can be at best a confusing myriad of information, at worst a danger to the body.

How did we get so far away from knowing how and what to eat?