This is the Cator Daily Podcast for Wednesday, April 5th, 2017.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Why has it taken so long to correct the errors contained in dietary advice of the last several decades?

Why have the federal government and other institutions dietary advice of the last several decades.

Why have the federal government and other institutions

been so complicit in refusing to challenge

specific beliefs about what constitutes a good diet?

Harry Taubbs is author of the new book, The Case Against Sugar.

We spoke last week at a Cato Institute event in New York.

Since the 1970s, the government has had nutrition guidelines.

What do you think the result of the government deciding to jump into that task has been?

Well, we don't know what the result is. We only know what's associated with that. to jump into that task has been.

Well, we don't know what the result is.

We only know what's associated with that task,

whether it's causal or not, remains to be seen,

but it happens to be associated with explosions

and the rates of obesity and diabetes,

which was the observation that got me into this business.

I remember sitting at a Starbucks in Potomac,

Maryland, where a former director of the Office of Disease Prevention, NIH said in 1984

and we told the whole country to go on a low-fat diet.

We thought, we didn't know if it would prevent heart disease.

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