Nutrition is the Y2K of our time

The turn of the millennium in 2000 was supposed to be an exciting event. Instead, for the IT and internet communities, it was a looming disaster. Thanks to a widespread computer programming shortcut from the early days of the technology, many programs only allowed two digits for each year — 1987, for example, would have been coded as just 87. That’s fine when every year begins with 19, but can crash the entire system when years…