LA Times Article - Choose foods, not nutrients

By Shari Roan
August 10, 2010

"The U.S. Dietary guidelines -- the advice that Americans are issued to help us eat healthier -- aren't working very well judging by the number of people who are overweight, obese or have nutrition-related illnesses. That may be because the guidelines aren't paying enough attention to food, according to a commentary released Tuesday. The dietary guidelines and recommended dietary allowances, or RDAs, were formulated about 70 years ago to target illnesses related to nutritional deficiencies, such as vitamin D and rickets. But nutritional deficiencies that cause rickets and scurvey and beriberi aren't as common today. And, the authors noted: 'the greater the focus on nutrients, the less healthful foods have become.'..."

http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-food-20100810,0,697947.story