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Article: Crisis situation: food industry takes aim at America's health crisis.(Dairy R&D)
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- Dairy Field
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- May 1, 2004
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The roil of media attention is unrelenting. The obesity crisis is good copy, in all its permutations. In May, Time magazine's cover story, "Low-Carb Nation," declared, "Nutritionists are horrified, but they can't stop the force that is reshaping the food industry--and our bodies."
This hyperbole comes in the wake of similar diet and health cover stories, network news specials, a rising volume of medical research targeting connections between food and fat, and incredibly popular diets, such as Atkins and Barry Sears' Zone. Many of these stories are based on questionable assumptions about the link between food marketing and obesity. But where there are victims, ...