"If you're concerned about your health, you should probably avoid food products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it's not really food, and food is what you want to eat."
It was in the 1980s that food began disappearing from the American supermarket, gradually to be replaced by “nutrients,” ... chemical compounds and minerals in foods that nutritionists have deemed important to health, "with the promise of scientific certainty; eat more of the right ones, fewer of the wrong, and you would live longer and avoid chronic diseases. But as American food culture went down this dimly lighted path we see an alarming increase in chronic diseases linked to diet — including heart disease, cancer and diabetes.