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What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.

Michael Pollan

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Michael Pollan
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 6
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