It was, you know, that was very gratifying for me. But the one group that didn't, that has been critical of me has been the American Heart Association. And The American Heart Association takes hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars from the processed food industry. And one of the reasons that we had these dietary guidelines with Fruit Loops at the top of the food pyramid is those guidelines were crafted by the mercantile impulses of those corporations and they got validation from the American Heart Association. (04:00–04:07)
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