Institutional Capture

Carbohydrate dietary guidelines follow the same pattern as historically banned harmful substances: industrial origins, institutional entrenchment, measurable harm, and accumulated counter-evidence. Grass-fed red meat and processed meat are categorically distinct but are placed in the same cancer risk category. Claims that eggs cause heart disease due to cholesterol have no credible evidentiary support. Every harmful product in history followed an arc from industrial or commercial origin, to institutional endorsement, through decades of harm, to eventual acknowledgment or ban.