Primal Omegas — a fish oil supplement derived from wild-caught Norwegian cod and rigorously third-party tested for heavy metals and other contaminants. Going by the "Food Compass Score" devised by Tufts University, the healthiest diet would consist of watermelon, canned peaches, cereal, pineapple, nonfat chocolate frozen yogurt, and chocolate covered almonds with a side of sweet potato chips. If you really want to, you can sneak in a couple meals that include ground beef or cheddar cheese or eggs fried in butter, but those should really "be minimized." Imagine if your kids got wind of this. They'd print out that chart and parade it around every chance they got, demanding sugar cereal instead of hamburgers, fries instead of eggs. Only it's worse than that. Now the health experts have jumped on board. Government officials writing laws and putting together school meal plans will wave this kind of information around when making their decisions. Later, on Twitter, the architect and popularizer of the new rating system, Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, responded to some criticisms. According to the doctor, beef deserves its meager placing since it "has no real health benefits." At best, it's "neutral." That's why Lucky Charms is better than beef. Then you have doctors swooping in with comments like this: |