It's Time To Flush Federal Dietary Guidelines Down the Drain

IBD reports:

Take the cholesterol controversy. Since 1977, the Holy Grail of federal nutrition guidelines has been to limit cholesterol intake, based on the then-unproven theory that it would cut back on heart disease.

Over the ensuing years, it became increasingly clear that this admonition wasn't just unproven, but plain wrong. This February, the advisory committee finally admitted that cholesterol is "not a nutrient of concern for overconsumption."

Worse, the government's war on fatty foods actually may have contributed to the nation's obesity problem. The City Journalnoted that "several top medical scientists have concluded that the government's carb-heavy guidelines may actually have harmed public health."

Indeed, if you look at the obesity trend in the U.S., you see it started its rapid climb in the late 1970s.

IBD is correct: why is the government determining what you should eat?