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Are you getting enough protein? Probably.

Most people pay attention to the information presented on the front of the label on a food product without flipping it over and checking out the nutrition facts panel or the ingredient list. Food companies know this and use it to their advantage by putting labels like the American Heart Association's Heart-Check mark on the front to create what’s called a “health halo effect”. Similar to greenwashing—a public relations strategy to make a product or company appear to be more e

Read enough diet and nutrition books and you’ll recognize certain patterns. The same symptoms are always presented. The same outcomes are always guaranteed. The only thing different is the kind of food emphasized, usually a “superfood” of one type or another. Most of the time, the writer was sick and then they were better; the “cure” usually attributed to eating certain foods in certain ways. Just as often, it was what they stopped eating that was heralded as the panacea. The