# The latest in government propaganda: Eat Real Food **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** food-cooking, diet-weight-loss\ **Created:** [January 7, 2026, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-in-government-propaganda-eat-real-food/1026449 "2026-01-07T23:32:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2026, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-in-government-propaganda-eat-real-food/1026449/161 "2026-01-21T21:53:57Z")
In my experience, most people don’t read the reviews and most people, if they did, wouldn’t go to the doctor who’s more strict. But I’d put that on Google and Yelp to fix, not doctors nor customers. They shouldn’t have a popularity rating on something that’s 90% about technical knowledge. (Customer relations ain’t nothing but with life and death questions, that’s a far back concern.) They should automate malpractice checks, etc. and score those in. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2026, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-in-government-propaganda-eat-real-food/1026449/162 "2026-01-21T22:00:29Z")
Huh. My experience (and what I have been told by the consultants out there) is that most do. And that most shy away from someone with no negative reviews… it isn’t believable. They like see a few negative ones that are from people who they clearly do not identify with. Also maybe a selective bias population but more and more families are appreciative antibiotic stewardship and the “watchful waiting” option, as long as it can be followed up over the phone or MyChart and not requiring another visit. Not all. But more and more. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2026, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-in-government-propaganda-eat-real-food/1026449/163 "2026-01-21T23:37:17Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > I wouldn’t be surprised if the opioid epidemic was, effectively, just the real world manifestation of this. I think that was part of it. Part of it was extremely effective advertising from the drug companies, complete with authoritative statements that people who took opioids (or at least, their opioids) for pain wouldn’t become addicted. I’m proud of my industry (the casualty insurance industry) for actually researching the impact of opioid prescriptions on workers compensation claims. It wasn’t easy, as you need to normalize the impact of different drugs as well as differing degrees of injury. A key insight was to realize that opioids were prescribed much more freely in some geographic regions than others, and you could match large numbers of injury types between those geographic regions. And we found that earlier and larger opioid prescriptions less to workers returning to work later, and less overall. They weren’t actually helping, at least, not at the higher doses ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2026, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-in-government-propaganda-eat-real-food/1026449/164 "2026-01-21T23:40:13Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > “watchful waiting” option, as long as it can be followed up over the phone or MyChart and not requiring another visit. Yup. I don’t want to drag myself in to another appointment, but if you promise me that if i get worse, you’ll treat me later, I’m often happy to wait and see if i get better on my own. Last time i had an ear infection, i filled the prescription (antibiotics are cheap) but at the advice of the NP, i waited another day before starting them, and was enough better the next day that i never took those pills. ---
**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2026, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-in-government-propaganda-eat-real-food/1026449/165 "2026-01-22T12:55:22Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > authoritative statements that people who took opioids (or at least, their opioids) for pain wouldn’t become addicted Wasn’t heroin originally developed because it was supposed to be a ‘non-addictive’ substitute for morphine? ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2026, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-in-government-propaganda-eat-real-food/1026449/166 "2026-01-22T12:57:22Z")
Or less addictive, yes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-latest-in-government-propaganda-eat-real-food/1026449.md?page=8)