No doubt politicians will argue that I'm wrong and there were a good number of scientists involved in constructing "My Plate, " but the facts speak for themselves: If government food recommendations came from science and not politics, the Department of Agriculture would have no role unless we needed cows to lose weight.

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On a day like this I was waiting for them to arrive and they called the wrong phone number to verify.

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