> My preference is to get the government out of the nutrition science business, but that's about as unlikely.

It’s critically important that the government is in the nutrition science business and it does nutrition science correctly. Think about all of the ways the government is implicitly taking a stance on nutrition. The farm bill, school lunches, checkoff programs, government cheese, prison meals, snap, and many more.

The problem is one of incentive alignment. For example, the FDA is responsible for both the agricultural industry and the health of the population, which currently are at odds as the agricultural industry producing a lot of junk food.

Democratic systems can work by increasing the transparency of the government and by increasing the education of the voting population.