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[thenonsequitur]

Its the newly formed health food revolution that is trying to leech money from us by feeding us misinformation and high priced supplements.

I think you are confusing real health products with faux-health products. Not all so-called "alternative" health products are useless, and not all supplements are worthless and overpriced. The majority are, but there's valuable stuff in this market if you're willing to do the research to sift through it all.

But the real benefits of the promotion of health awareness is a more wide-spread understanding of nutrition and other topics related to health, not the marketable products that come out of it. And there's a difference between 1. the rising level of nutrional awareness based on real research and designed to promote health; and 2. disinformation and propoganda based on the desire for profit and targetting people who primarily want to lose weight (things that fall into this category would be "dieting", as verb rather than a noun, and the intense focus on certain things like fat and calories while ignoring everything else).

I think what the government/food industry has told us has more or less been correct for years

The government and the food industry have told us different (and sometimes contradictory) things, so this statement doesn't really make sense.

The food industry is just as profit-driven as health product companies so they have the same motivation to disinform.

But as far as the government goes, I also think you are confusing intention with results. I do believe that government is likely to be more well-intentioned than health product companies or the food industry (because the government agencies responsible for diseminating this information are less profit-driven). But a better intention doesn't mean they are getting it right (they aren't), and it doesn't mean they aren't soaking up some of the industry-created disinformation (they are).

Government-released information on a healthy diet (like the food pyramid, for example), is frequently incorrect, because it is based on a combination of poor research and incorrect information supplied by the food and health industries.