Two conflicting yet aligning stories

First from the Today show:

On The Today Show, Matt Lauer hosted dietitian Elizabeth Ward to discuss how to make "healthy" food choices on a road trip. Virtually the only measure Ward used to evaluate what was healthy was how many calories is in it.

The whole story is here

Here's a little information about Ms.Ward.

Ward has been a speaker at more than 140 professional meetings, including The American Dietetic Association, The Florida Dietetic Association, The Massachusetts Dietetic Association, The Pennsylvania School Food Service Association, The National Association of Catering Executives, and the Tenth International Congress of Dietetics in Paris, France.

Ward created and conducted corporate nutrition education programs for five years with Medical Care Affiliates/Health Promotion Affiliates in Boston, where she also counseled patients about a healthy diet and lifestyle. She has also worked at the Joslin Diabetes Center and the American Heart Association, and for seven years counseled children and adults at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates.

Now with that said ... here's the other part:

High-Fat Diets Linked to Stupidity, Laziness

See the full story here

The whole problem I have with Ms Ward's little story above is not bringing your own. Surely in rural America, there are places where the average person can go to say ... oh shop ... get things like .. produce, fruit ... etc. Thinking like this .. if you can call it that ... led us to co-op our health to people like Cargill and Monsanto in the first place.