I think it's the only solution:

This is where Japan seems to have gotten it right. Don't just lecture kids with whatever blah-blah MyPlate/nutrition recommendations; teach kids basic culinary skills.

It reminds me of how it irks me that I got A's in university-level algebra, geometry and calculus, but knew nothing about mortgages, credit cards, income tax law, or other real life math skills and it messed up my life.

So true! And all the things our parents didn't teach us. Perhaps we lacked the cool aunt or uncle who were honest about what else was important to learn... I had to come up with my own strategies, a day late and many dollars short

My problem with this is what are they going to teach these kids about nutrition?

Given the ever increasing push for low fat, low cholesterol, and plant based proteins, I doubt seriously that they're going to teach them about the nutritional importance of animal foods to begin with.

They already have a very limited menu of choice in the schools: vegetables, fruits and lots of grains, with a tiny bit of protein.

If they teach them to cook at all, they'll be teaching them how to make vegan burgers to go with whole grain breads, and homemade cookies for dessert.

We DO have to agree on what is "good eating." Without the profiteers. It's the chemical constructs in the artificial food which is their addictive secret.

Something has another headline. "THESE plant based diets are incredible for health!" But I know it's repeated across all these outlets which now dominate the search rankings.

Plus, Google pushes plant based on purpose. We can't look to institutions to work properly in the US, unless we make them stop taking the money.

That's the biggest problem.

My generation generally started out with loads of animal proteins and fats and cholestrol, but to our detriment were convinced as adults to stop eating so much red meat, watch our cholesterol. So of course we have health issues compared to previous generations.

They're not going to stop promoting whole grains and every UPF made from loads of carbs and seed oils until they have at least one generation that eats that way from the time they're weaned, and end up with even worse health outcomes than my generation has... while following their "healthy" advice to the letter.

That's just it, they won't stop, ever. Which is why they fight the free flow of information, which is slowly overwhelming their message with a person's actual lived experience.

It will take a century for this bad information to be dispelled with solemn historians shaking their heads over "what people believed." Officially.

But to have science co-opted... that is why it takes so long. But tobacco fell and people still buy it. Eventually, the Frankenfoods will go the same way.

Since the last time I went to the big fancy supermarket, it was three cases of liquid dairy products. And three cases of nut milk products.

I guess I'm just grateful I can still get dairy at the supermarket, no? They will kill every animal on the planet for profit, and that includes us.

They won't stop. They can only BE stopped. Since the only bad results they care about comes from Wall Street.

People already know, deep down, that these are not foods! But they eat them anyway. That is what really perturbs me. Though I'm equally worried about the people I know who are dutifully following official advice, not knowing this is coming from people who actually don't have their best interests in mind. They are wrapping their pork loin in spinach so they can have their meat and feel healthy. Or declaring a meal 9/10th plant based because NO ONE is actually teaching actual nutrition from bio-availability.

It's not only biased for corporations, the science has hardly budged in over one hundred years.

We have to teach the lastest science, and that's where the roadblock is. Because despite all efforts at "keeping up" I talk to doctors who know nothing about food, and some of them are young, too!

I think your health insurance rates should go up with your BMI. Once you pass the normal range, your rate should go up the higher you go. When you get to the obesity range, even more.

After all, you are a bigger risk when you are overweight.