A healthy distrust of experts, especially government experts, is a good trend. Government "expertise" is always contaminated by politics (eg the Ethanol scam). Caveat emptor.
A review of how government food advice got it all wrong and gullible citizens ate it up. They went high-carb, low fat, no red meat, etc all to either zero effect or by getting fat. A quote:
As the threat of communicable diseases receded, public medicine began to turn its attention to treating and preventing health problems that weren’t germ-caused, such as chronic heart disease and strokes, the death rates for which seemed to be soaring after World War II. Some observers cautioned that the apparent increase might be the result of diagnostic advances, which had improved doctors’ ability to detect heart ailments. This possibility, however, failed to deter the press and advocacy groups like the American Heart Association from declaring the arrival of a frightening epidemic.
Related, Drafter of U.S. Dietary Goals Was Bribed by Big Sugar to Demonize Fat - Newly released historical documents show
the Sugar Research Foundation paid scientists to blame fat and
cholesterol, not sugar, for coronary heart disease.
That is a major but unknown scandal. Think of all of the gullible Americans who avoided "red meat" and "animal fat" over a generation, for no reason at all.
