I had come to Italy to answer a question. Why did Italy turn out so differently from America? After the discovery of vitamins, the road of nutrition forked. Governments faced with an epidemic of malnutrition could take the new road, as America did, and biochemically fix the problem, which seems like the obvious thing to do. Or they could stay on the old road. Italy stayed on the old road. They could have fortified their flour but did not. They could have loaded their ice cream with alginate and other stabilizers and fats, but instead gelato shops boast their gelato is made in the artisanal,
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