My intelligence has expressed to me, that it takes personal offence when confronted with something which assumes that it does not exist - for example, this traffic light labelling system.
My sense of logic had a quiet word with me too, and remarked that oversimplifying something frequently makes it meaningless.
For example, under the above traffic light scheme assumedly Hemp Oil (a very healthy product) would get a red light just the same as a block of lard..... and dates would get a red light for sugar just like Mars Bars would.
This sounds like a case of people trying to dumb down their explanation of a complex situation to the extent that even people with low levels of education, who are incapable of simple mathematics and understanding basic information, can comprehend it pretty much instantly.
As is the case with the Food Pyramids, it would seem to be a case of oversimplification leading to obfuscation of the truth of what is actually healthful to eat or not.
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