Perhaps things are done differently in America... I don't know what to make of this. Have you seen Dr Anderson's University's list of sponsors? Many of them make sugared, processed food, processed carbohydrates. One of them is Slimfast - I don't really know how to categorise that product, but I wouldn't have thought it was a food.

The more I look, the more I feel dissatisfied with this whole thing.

I suppose one of the practical commercial problems is that people producing fresh foods (as recommended by Schwarzbein etc) tend to be farmers or companies on smaller margins. They don't have the mega budgets of the processed food makers, and cannot sponsor research in the same way.

Jilly