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Once when I was still smoking, I ran a 10K run and then had a cigarette. Some part of me, said "how stupid is this"? We have a corporate food system that promo
by talkingtab 2y ago
Once when I was still smoking, I ran a 10K run and then had a cigarette. Some part of me, said "how stupid is this"?
We have a corporate food system that promotes obesity. Now other corporations want us to pay $1000/month to "cure" obesity. How stupid is that?
Go to a grocery store, measure the frontage into three categories:
- directly obesity inducing (soft drinks, chips, candy, flavored, sugar drinks, etc)
- processed and obesity inducing. Frozen meals. Mac and cheese, anything with added fat, sugar. How much salt induces obesity? Will meat from animals that have been given growth enhancers then enhance your growth? Will meat ground with fat induce obesity?
- healthy. Fresh vegetables, fruit, beans etc.
Now here is the question for you? Which of these groups make the most profit to the supplier? And does that align with the groupings above?
At my grocery store that we literally have less that one side of one aisle of fresh fruit and vegetables. And even there, more and more of the space is taken by packaged veggies - chopped lettuce with included salad dressing etc.
Our perception of our food system is whacked out. "a dominant theme has been that we have the safest food supply in the world." [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK209121/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK209121/], and yet we have an epidemic of obesity. How safe is obesity?