How We Became a Society of Gluttonous Junk Food Addicts

Every fast food restaurant has the nutrition facts posted on the wall. If you are too stupid to read or comprehend what they mean, you deserve to be the object of ridicule until your heart gives out at 47. No one has ever eating McDonalds, gone to bed, and woke up with a BMI of 50.

Do you want big brother to tell you what you can and cannot eat? I’ll be more than happy to volunteer a few hours a week to stand outside of a fast food restaurant with a caliper and turn away balls of goo, include children. “Sorry buddy. You’re too round to have a Happy Meal." After all, “It takes a Village” right?

This is what you are eating.

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Not surprising. As it says in the popular free ebooks series "And Gulliver Returns" (http://andgulliverreturns.info) We are primarily self centered. (Book 4)Our psychological natures usually pervade over our logical natures. (Book 6)
And junk food tastes so good!

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Just because junk food is an indulgence doesn't mean that it's necessarily an addiction for everybody. Anything can be an addiction. Ironically, it's our meddling corporate friends that have convinced some of us that there's a life-threatening addiction or health crisis under every rock...and that there's a fancy pill, program, or set of self-help videos that can cure you.

Junk is not necessarily a corporate thing, as this article implies. Diner food, pizza, cheese steaks, mega-burgers, BBQ, etc. can be a mom-and-pop thing, and have been so throughout history. In fact, lately I've been looking for a better way to find those great hole-in-the-wall local cult places as an alternative to corporate junk. I found a couple of web sites, but nothing very helpful.

The recipe is very simple: grease, starch, spice, salt, sugar, etc. You don't need fancy R&D or marketing departments to figure that one out; just a fat relative with a love for good cookin'.

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This is a well-researched and informative article. As a vegetarian who indeed eschews fast food though, I fail to see what the writer means as he closes the article saying that even if I "opt out," it's my problem. Opting out is the only voice I have to raise, pal. Like boycotting Wal-Mart and buying local produce. I can't help what others choose. People are so sensitive and defensive when it comes to fast food and really what they eat, drink, and buy in general. If I get a chance to to vote on this issue, yes, I would vote for cleaner fast food, just like cleaner cigarettes without all the addictive additives. When I'm in a car with hungry people, we always go to Subway, a lesser of evils. What more do you want from me?

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bleeding us dry.

Junk food is a form of self-medication whether our stress comes from unemployment, long and unsocial hours of work, money and health worries or personal problems.

The overprivileged corporation is the enemy of the people. The answer lies not in political parties or individual leaders but in waking up everyone to the fact that we are all in the same boat and are defiling our planet while we are demeaning ourselves.

Human happiness should be our mutual goal as happy people have no need to dominate or control others.

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Our body and mind are built from the construction materials we feed them: food and thoughts. “You are what you eat” has a point of truth. Likewise: “As you think, so you become” is also true. Rubbish food and rubbish entertainment are leading us to the first “rubbish civilisation” in history. BigCorps and the politicians they hire may be proud of what they are doing. They are the rubbish profiteers. For the moment.

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and fast food mixes it all up in a single, or a few, items.
Our taste buds and brain are wired to desire and search out foods that have these elements, because in the wild the food items that have these things also have what we need to nourish our bodies.
But plants that have sweet and starchy tastes have lots of other nourishments and are not very compact with calories, and meats with the salty taste and fat are hard to get and usually pretty tiny and more protein and less fat.
So as we go after these foods laden with what our brain and tongue wants, we don't get the proper balance, and over decades we suffer nutritionally and we damage the organs that try to deal with the imbalance...........pancreas, liver, blood vessels, adipose tissue, immune systems, hormones, etc.

Fast foods have evolved to have just exactly the mixes that satisfy our desires, desires that were once so important to our survival and helped us search out the plants and animal foods that sustained us the best.

All we have left to protect us now is knowledge and willpower, a lifetime of it, and it is hard to be good all the time.

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And the junkies let the rest of us foot the bill, of course.

Overweight people are a major drain on our dysfunctional health-care system. Those of us who aren't obese are paying the tab.

It's the same with smokers, gun freaks, and other addicts. They don't care how much the rest of us have to pay (or who gets killed)--just so long as they can have their fun.

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Try this junk food addiction test. Go on a three day junk food free diet, you can eat as much as you want but absolutely no junk food of any description, nothing processed, be it from a package, can or packet. If you really need to feed your sweet tooth, try honey and cream on thick toast, have as much as you want (sugar and fat). Now see how hungry you get and what you feel like on the third night and, the typical dieters trouble night. Those aren't food cravings those are drug cravings. Unami ain't a flavour hit it is a drug hit.

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something a regular 3-day fast will teach even the most incredulous practitioner. 24h into it, you start looking at other people gorging on food regardless of their energy expenditure or needs. Like alcoholics getting their daily booze fix.

Try it, it's a real eye-opener.

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My kids love McDonald's and Burger King - and we go there every two months or so - not because of fat, sugar and salt, but because of the games and the toys. It's true the food there sucks, but I can't help regretting the fact that ordinary restaurants have only one message for kids: "shut up and behave." It seems to me McDonald's success was first and foremost caused by their discovery of a huge, untapped market: families with little kids who have trouble sitting still for hours on end.

Also I see no real evidence in this article that points to addiction-inducing products. Satisfying the senses is something other than addiction - as a former smoker who now watches his weight, I know the difference. Staying away from Doritos or any other fast food is easy. My kids get chips only on birthdays, coca cola never, and they love apples and garden-grown tomatoes, and I'm in great shape too with little to no effort.

"Addiction" is no excuse for gluttony. If there is an excuse, it's the general sickness of our society which may lead people to treat their bodies the way they see everything else being treated, as disposable, abusable objects.

PS The part about umamis was really interesting. But taste enhancers aren't necessarily bad. What if umamis were used to promote organic food (the way Hindus use asafoetida in their vegetarian cooking)? Would we then speak of nefarious "addiction"?

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All fruits except some berries have been selected over the centuries, and millenia, to be sweeter, softer, have less fiber, be prettier, etc, than their wild ancestors.
Same with veggies.
Corn and tomatoes were hardly edible before man manipulated them to make them tastier.
Meats are far more fatty than any wild meats.
Grains, not even a natural food for us, have been changed into something that never existed, and then processed into breads and flours and many products, none of which is natural for us.
Even fish now, once a wild food, is grown and altered to make them cheaper and just the size and type that make our mouths water.

The fast food industry is just doing more of what man has been doing for about 11,000 years: manipulating his food to bring out the flavors and textures he likes, even as the foods then become less healthy for us.

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"How We Became a Society of Gluttonous Junk Food Addicts"

Speak for yourself, Queen Victoria. As so often happens with AlterNet editors, an article with an interesting premise and conclusions has a headline that's somewhat misleading.

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Avoiding fast-food restaurants is not enough. One has to read every label in the supermarket. It's almost impossible to buy any prepared food that is not junk or junked up with additives. The fact that fast-food restaurants post their products' nutritional facts on the wall does not protect anyone from supermarket factory food. Fresh food is no safer unless you know its origin. Buying local, organically grown food is the only way to know that what you're getting is not laboratory poison.

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First of all this is a world-wide problem and not confined to the US, junk food is everywhere and a symptom of modern living. People who live a busy hectic lifestyle are seduced into eating fast food simply because they lack the time to sit down to a home-cooked meal like their grandparents did and unfortunately the side effect of this trend is obesity and the diseases that follow.

What do we do now that all the information is out there? well at this stage, l'm sorry to say IS personal responsibility. Parents who are overweight are far more likely to have overweight kids and it is this group who are are most at risk, making this issue a political one is the worst thing we can do as people have different views regarding politics, lines will be drawn and opinions will be polarised,---"its unpatriotic to pass a KFC and shop at a local farmers co-op that sells fresh fruit& vegetables"

Bi-partisan community leaders must become the army that tackles obesity, they are the only ones who will be able to advise and help with this, if folk feel that they are being dictated to by either Liberals or Conservatives its perfectly natural they will rebel.

In the UK some parents influenced by TV chefs have embraced healthy school dinners in place of burgers and chips,---unfortunately most kids don't seem to like healthy options and prefer to walk into towns and spend their lunch money on junk, so persuading them to change is looking like a long battle ahead.

Parents must be educated into thinking that they are doing this as a patriotic duty towards future generations
and that can only be done if all the political parties speak with one voice. After-all eating the way our grand-parents did is no big deal!

There are many ways to achieve this,high sales-tax on foods with a high fat ratio or by giving tax-breaks to those who sell fresh fruit/vegetables is one way, another is Government information on what is "healthy" because many people believe that all burgers ARE
healthy when in fact they are not.

This must not become a war between meat eaters and vegetarians as both prepared in the right way are healthy, both cooked the wrong way with added fats and monosodium glutamate are bad. l have met vegetarians who smugly believe that vege-burgers are healthy but when you look closly at the label you will see the fat content is off the scale,--they would be better off eating a lean meat burger.

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Is there something wrong with me? Fast food doesn't taste good. Not compared to food I can prepare at home: vegetables cooked properly, a fish broiled just right, blueberries and cream, fresh corn bread... How much of this "addiction" is concocted not by our physiology but by operant conditioning? The chef with the taste for Doritos--yeah, he might toss off a bag now and then, but he'd never settle for that kind of food as the stuff of his existence.

People love junk food because they have not experienced truly delicious food--a good pistou, ratatouille, a vegetarian chili. They were brought up on junk and that early experience shapes their choices now. It won't be easy to undo the effects of one or two generations of learning the wrong things.

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There's not much you can do for the industry, I suppose, but...
We could get the junk out of the classrooms....out of the schools (vending machines)...out of Brownie meetings and sports practice.
It's everywhere.
I'm a substitute teacher, and I see what happens in the schools. I think sometimes these little kindergarteners eat half their weight in sugar in a day in class. There's snack time with some junky "health bar" which is full of sugar. Then it's lunch time where the parents have packed the lunch with "drink" (sugar) and more bars (sugar) and yogurt (sugar) and more. One time I saw a kid with a lovely homemade cookie as large as his head. That was the hit of the classroom.
Then there's the big jar of candy at the front of the class which children can choose from as a reward. Then it's somebody's birthday (nearly ever other day it seems) and the huge cupcakes come out (sugar) along with a drink (sugar).
And one of five days it seems there is a holiday or 100 day or "super friday" or something where junk food reigns again. The "roommothers" arrive with their syrupy drinks (sugar) and their cookies and the bags of candy.
One time the PTA created a large and elaborate spook alley. The kids loved it. It was perfect--scary but safe, amazingly great. Then at the end, each child was handed a lunch bag FULL TO THE BRIM with CANDY!!! They would have loved the spook alley without the candy at the end, but we are so used to having candy at every event, the sponsors couldn't conceive of having it without the surprise at the end.

Then the kids go to their after school activities where there is inevitably some sort of sugary product given at the end. And, then they go out to McDonalds with their parents for supper where, as we know, they are eating corn syrup, corn syrup, corn syrup.

SOMETHING HAS TO STOP THIS!!!

Some enlightened person could say, "Could we have oranges at the end of practice instead of orange drink?"
or...
"Principal, could you enforce a policy of no candy in the school."
or
"Parents, please send in carrot sticks for a snack, NOT graham crackers or pretzels or "health" bars.
or....
"Let's learn about nutrition in the Cub Scout meeting and then everyone bring a NUTRITIOUS snack in their turn."
or
"NO more soft drink machines in the schools."
also...
MOre exercise in school. MOre schools within walking distance. More playing on the playground...

There's a LOT we could do if we wanted to.

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fast food driveins developed rapidly and spead like wildfire
people fillup with gas and silly snacks.
our grandparents and great grandpaents never snacked.
the british had a teatime but it wasn't chips and pop and or bags of this and that.
fast cars... fast food and...mindless munching.

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as a type 1 diabetic, stay away from fast and processed foods as much as possible... not that I'm any less a junk food junkie as anyone else, but for me, everything that goes in my mouth has a 'price'...

few of the fast food joints post carb counts that include all sugars... stay out of restaurants that can't tell me what the carb count is too... hey, have to calculate how much injected insulin needed and fats and salt can skew my guesses and land me in the in the ER fast...

love cheese nips but the info on the box was wrong and spent 3 days in the ICU almost dying from their bad nutrition info a few years back... shot letters off to the manufacturer and a few days ago, looked, and they still have the same bad info on the box!!!

if you had to look at food like I do, you'd realize every food item has a price and for me, it comes in a little vial that lasts about a week for $140.00 each...

back to coffee... plain, whole bean fair traded coffee from a non-profit organization in New England...

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I'm glad I live in a country where I can be picky about what I eat, and you enjoy the luxury of being fussy about your neighbor's plate.

Other folks don't have it so nice.

Small world mind?

P.S. Of course you can commit suicide (eventually) by burger. Same with cigs, alcohol, hard drugs, and oh-so-lethal dihydrogen monooxide, if it is ingested in sufficient quantities.

I'm sure that most CAN use their higher brain--the one that exercises restraint when a primitive urge hits you, else there'd be pandemonium at large, not just in your head, over your neighbor's plate. Tell your lizard brain no, for a change?

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And the winner{s} are the contracts between the American Food Procducers, the Health Insurance business and the hospitals.

No wonder they are against a single payer system.

Never forget the Politicians who are whores for all of the above

Bon Appetit

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Our junk food addiction is only made possible by our oil addiction. And since it's been announced this week --in the European press, anyway-- that the oil fields are most definitely past peak, this unfortunate development will certainly put a wrench in the works. No more cheap energy, no more junk food.

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We Americans are hooked on junk food because: 1. Humans love fat and sugar; 2. Clever and subversive marketing campaigns designed by advertising agencies with research provided by psychologists and sociologists in their employment has brainwashed us to love the crap to excess.

I mean, really now, who do you think hires all those psych and sociology majors who graduate from the nation's state collages and universities every year? State governments? County governments? I know for a fact that marketing research firms hire a good many psychologists and sociologists.

Why do I think that? The best friend of a fellow I used to work with, upon receiving his master's degree in psychology from the local university, was immediately hired to supervise operations at the local office of a major marketing research company. Hell, I guinea pigged for him, got a case of beer one time and 35 bucks another.

You soon realize that the corporate suits paying for the "research" view the rest of "us" merely as pigeons in a Skinner box. Why do you think these s.o.b.s refer to we mere mortals as consumers rather than customers or patrons or clients? To me the implication is clear: "Consumers" are passive, those other critters may cause trouble. Therefore through the canny use of modern psychological and sociological techniques, brainwashing in other words, convince "customers," they are in fact "consumers" and soon they will eat, buy and love any shit that is handed to them.

For those of you reading this who yet eat at McDonald's, Burger King or Hardees the brainwashing has worked. Hasn't it?

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Look at any of the advertisements in magazines from the 1940's -1950's, they were then basically begging the American home-maker to "make her life easy" by buying their "convenience foods". As agricultural subsidies increased and made mass produced food "cheaper" it has become a matter of economics. Might I also add that as more and more women have joined the workforce, people are working (and traveling)farther from home, there aren't the extended families around, convenience foods have become a staple. Not to mention that the artificially low prices (due to subsidies), when compared to "cooking from scratch", and you have too many eating convenience over real flavor!

I believe that far too many Americans not only don't cook, the problem is they no longer know how to season (for flavor) their foods. This in turn leads to taste buds, not being satisfied. This non satisfaction of taste buds is what has people "craving" that snack of choice! Add to this the empty quality in our lives, and instead of realizing what it really is - we tend to eat to satisfy that "need".

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Most of the people I know who eat at McDonald's or a Burger King these days are working women.

Quite often the women in my circle of friends find themselves either unemployed, underemployed and working two minimum-wage jobs to make ends meet. Often a fast-food meal is all these women can afford or have time to scarf down between one low wage job and the other.

I can't condemn these ladies too much, knowing their economic circumstances, for wolfing down a McDonald's fish fillet sandwich now and then.

I do try to cook a substancial meal for them from time to time.

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Addictive use of food, like that of the other top killer, nicotine, is a socially accepted and celebrated dependence on a potentially lethal, mood-altering substance. It is normalized by media and promoted, like nicotine, by cover organizations like AA and NA as a way to help addicts remain comfortably addicted.

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A GIANT pic of Paris AND a superduper double cheese and bacon burger on the front page! I'm going to vomit all day.

;-)

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Americans want nothing more than entitlement. They got to have that whopper or else they'll die. You stupid Americans want everything cheap and you deserve it. Americans have no sense of personal responsibility.

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Good Christians try their best to avoid sin. But as hard as they try most cannot avoid the deadliest of sins and that is Gluttony. It would be difficult to work as a priest if obese. The sin would be displayed on his belly. That is why most priests are slim. Very few of us would buy a used car from an obese salesman. It is thought that if he commits the sin of Gluttony he would also commit the one of Greed. A presidential candidate betters his chance by being slim. That is the main reason our new president was elected. He is as slim as can be. A good nick name for him would be: "SLIM".

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They use personal responsibility. Why can't you? Stupid Americans !

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During the most hyper busy or stressed-out times in my life, my cravings for fast-food went through the roof. Most people, just anecdotally speaking, who are obese or do breakfast,lunch and dinner at Macdonald's or a vending machine are usually working class. When I would go to the more higher income parts of my community and your see lean bodies, higher incomes. they might have housekeepers and just one job, well funded schools and are active in the high upper middleclass community they live in. Fighting factory farms and Berger King and what not, is important. But we need a wider conversation about the distribution of wealth and the privileges that go with it, in order to fight the threat to our society, especially the poor and communities of color that endure the brunt of this food genocide.

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Go look at this website regarding MSG and how many names it goes under. http://www.truthinlabeling.org

As a person who has 4 of 5 family members with serious health issues that are directly related to MSG, I find it criminal that the FDA poses such bull sh-t that it is safe.

It has been found by the FDA to be a “relatively safe” additive, however, there aren’t guidelines on what’s a “safe” quantity. Everyone’s tolerance level is different. They acknowledge that there may be sensitivities to the product, however, it’s not acknowledged as an allergen and they hedge further warnings because the body can produce glutamates naturally. In reviewing the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health website, searching on MSG and obese, 119 studies appear. Certain obesity studies used mice injected with MSG because it caused them to become obese. Obesity doesn’t occur naturally in mice.

Studies suggest links to asthma, childhood obesity, behavior issues, brain deterioration (Alzheimer’s), cardiac, digestive, eye, neurological, skin, urological, and a host of other problems. When many of the studies were published, they were ignored or negated by manufacturers and their “friendly” scientists.

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Apparently Alternet has a genre of posts with the theme, "Americans do everything wrong." (It seems to mirror the conservatives' version: "The French do everything wrong.") Americans don't eat right; they don't fuck right; they have the wrong beliefs about god; they suffer from false consciousness; etc.

Mixing up this lifestyle snobbery with progressive politics has probably helped to turn the working class away from voting for some sensible policies in the U.S. You guys might get farther by respecting people's choices about private matters, instead of treating the choosers like they come from Opposite Land.

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It is about time we start choosing our food with our brain, not with our palate, so we won't become overweight, live sick, or die prematurelly, literally killed by our own palate.

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Including sugar-laden sodas? Give this a viewing:

http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=16717

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But corporatism is the villain.

Humans are biologically programmed to crave sweet, salt, and fat.

That's because, in our natural scavenger state-of-nature, those substances are extremely rare.

But we require them, too.

So, when presented the opportunity, we gorge.

And 'kapitalismus,' which only prospers in relation to the desires it can promote, profits handsomely...

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You people can't get her off your minds!
There is nothing she can do to get on your good side.
She never thinks of you, yet you can't stop thinking about her.
Sarah Palin is winning!

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I refuse to eat junk food. All I have to do is conjure up an image of the Amazon (the lungs of the planet) being decimated so McDonald's, et al, can serve the sheeple their daily poison. Everyone bitches and moans about corporations yet daily serve their masters. STOP buying so much of their crap! Learn to be selective. It can be done with little effort. Cut back. Way back. You'll lose weight and feel better knowing you're doing something positive for the planet.

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I drove truck for 40 years and then retired.
Two weeks after I got my first SS check I was diagnosed with colon cancer.

That was 13 years ago. I ate from all those junk food establishments, especially KFC. It was fast and easy to wolf it down and on the road again.

I have since changed my diet and habits. I only eat organic and never any processed foods. I have read almost every label on the Food Industries packaged foods, and you cannot find any packaged foods that don't contain some sort of chemical additive that is harmful to our bodies.

Many of these chemical additives in the food source creates harmful hormones that make changes in our metabolism and are detrimental to our cellular system, that create early cell death and mutant changes.

It is very hard to return to nature for your food source, but that is what I try to do when I feed my body now.
Nature provided us with everything we need to survive but it is almost impossible to find a perfect natural substance on earth now, as the environment has been change with man made pollutions and chemicals that change even what nature has provided us for optimal health.

The Pharmaceutical and food industries are to powerful to ever make the changes we need to restore the health of the population, as they would lose to much in that process.

You just have to educate the people so they understand what they eat is how they will exist, healthy or just plain sick and obese and a drain on their life.

The Factory Farm are the largest pollutants of this planet with all the pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers, that are used to produce all the food grown on the soils.

Those pollutants eventually wash into the streams and rivers and end up in the oceans, they then are creating huge dead zones that kill everything in their path. Eventually they will kill off the Marine phytoplankton, that is the base of the food change. When that happens, so goes the food for survival and then, so goes the inhabitants of earth.

This is what will happen if there is not change to restore the planet as nature intended. You can't screw with Mother Nature, She will have revenge. Man must stop destroying this place we live in, for profit, as there is no where else we can go.Education is the answer to making changes. Read labels and stop buying the food that is killing the inhabitants of planet earth.

Read my blog for a start.
My Healthy info

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I missed the empirical connection between this type of food and disease. Then again, I guess I'm just dumb. The manner with which the author describes how this food is manufactured makes pretty clear that this stuff is not providing nourishment.

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gen X was the last generation not poisoned by junk food; and, actually played outside and enjoyed sports.
Recently, my 40 year old daughter told me that when she visited the homes of school friends, she was in awe of the snacks; chips, cokes, cookies!
She marveled at the goodies available in those homes; she told them: 'We don't have any of this stuff!' Poor little deprived girl; cursed with good health, shining hair, great smile and strong bones. Sigh...

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Perhaps, as someone who eschews meat and fast food, I do feel a little bit smug—I actually can’t bear the thought of eating Doritos, or almost any other manufactured “junk food”, which includes soft drinks! I consume mostly organic vegetables and fruit (some home grown) and wild salmon or other Seafood Watch-recommended fish.

But more than smugness, the feeling I have is sadness and despair that we have come to this—that children are suffering from obesity and associated ills, like diabetes and hypertension, while big corporations pile up the profits from this. And I really don’t think it’s true that “[we] know this food is killing us slowly with diabetes, heart disease and cancer.” Do five-year-olds know that? Do their parents really believe it? I don’t think these parents would let their children smoke cigarettes!

This, along with the related enormous issue of American health (or rather, “sickness”), is an overwhelming problem. The answer to both seems so simple and yet so impossible to achieve, given our entrenched penchant for eating stuff that is so far from meeting our bodies’ nutritional needs. Michael Pollan summed it up: Eat real food, mostly plants. I don’t think 90% of us know what that means!

Michael Pollan wrote a letter to President Obama about health care reform. I read it and thought it so on the mark. If every citizen read it and implemented his recommendations, the positive impact on our health would be stupendous. But the negative economic impact on the medical/pharmaceutical industry and manufactured/junk food industry would also be stupendous! It’s fun to imagine, but it won’t happen!

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In addition to its addictive and unhealthy formulations, fast food is popular because it is convenient.

Home cooking requires time and planning. One must shop for the required ingredients, cook the meal, and clean up. The payoff is that you eat better meals with healthier ingredients. It's a matter of priorities.

American society has an ever-increasing sense of entitlement. Entitlement to have what I want, when I want it, with as little cost as possible. Cost involves time as well as money. When weighing the decision to spend 30-60 minutes cooking dinner at home vs. going through a drive-thru, a person performs a personal cost-benefit analysis. Is a healthier, home-cooked meal worth the time investment required? Or would I rather get take-out so I can spend that time on a pleasure activity like TV or video games? Kids, multiple jobs, long commutes, etc. all take time and make the home cooking investment less appealing.

Some people don't like to cook, don't know how to cook, etc. Feeling uncomfortable with a task can makes the task not enjoyable, at first. But if you can read a recipe, you can cook. Get a copy of The Best 30-Minute Recipe by Cook's Illustrated, or a similar cookbook aimed at weeknight dinners. Choose recipes. Make a shopping list and make one weekly trip to the grocery store - buying ingredients with a plan means you will spend less and have less waste. Cook a meal each night. Pack the leftovers for lunch.

Cooking at home with whole ingredients can teach you new skills, expand your dining horizons, and improve your diet. It is an investment of some time each day. Until fast food lovers see the value of that investment, they will keep getting take-out.

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Good article.

Gupta points out that the corn "farmer" gets only a slice of a penny for every dollar spent on a bag of fritos. This is true, but even that isn't getting to the severity of the decline of farmers' slice of the food dollar.

When a corn farmer gets a penny, 80-90% of that money is going straight to the real profiteers in this food system: the suppliers of seed, equipment, chemicals, and fuel.

Of course, the actual price that corn farmers get from buyers who make things like fritos is nowhere near profitable. If it were truly a "free market", no one would grow corn, or soybeans, or any other commodity that is traded globally. The subsidy system hides the true costs, and is basically a massive system of shifting money from the government, thru farmers, to the companies that supply the agro-insustrial complex, or whatever you want to call it.

On the other side of the racket, frito's-makers, corn syrup dealers, and people feeding corn in animal factories get a super cheap product, since our subsidy system is really fitting the bill.

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"people self-administer food in search of "different stimulating and sedating effects," just as is done with a "speedball" -- which combines cocaine and heroin." LOFL

The idea that some demonic force is at work through the ever dreaded "they" to subjugate the masses and lead us to hell... is a regressive fallacy and needs to be left for the right wing.

In a market driven economy, those that provide a product or service aren't evil if; that product or service doesn't produce the results you consider good, or you deem evil.

"They" are people with jobs that provide what those in america want. It's NOT the other way 'round.

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When you allow people's profits to be god... All these places should be shut down but because they rake in billions to the corporations they are part of, employ so many and so many are ignorant of the harm in eating their products, they go on building more and more outlets.
As the great Frank Zappa sang in "Brown Shoes Don't make It" "Do ya love it? Do ya hate it? There it is, the way you made it... WOOOOWWwww!!!

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Our vulture capitalism is based on encouraging compulsive addiction. Our advertising agencies specialize in it too.

All of these add-on costs of processing and sensationalizing are being added on to our cost of living and it is becoming a weight on our wallets so we slowly are sinking all the while we are wallowing in mass produced magic that casts a spell over us. The more we work to keep up the less time we have for anything but fast food.

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You begin with the puller--you, me, us, we--then at the end you blame the pusher, when logically you should have blamed both pusher and puller.

If you blame only the pusher, then it's the other guy's fault--not your own, our own. And the way to correct the other guy's problem is always more government regulation, for asking us to correct our own behavior is just asking too much, eh?

Sure the food business is at fault, sure. But so are we. Like you, I admit to craving some junk food every now and then--and about once a year I give in to temptation. But the rest of the time, I cook my own fresh foods, add my own herbs and spices, and eat well. It can be done by anyone. If people stopped buying junk, the junk dealers would go out of business--or develop better foods.

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So called Junk food has never been definitively linked to any of the diseases mentioned in this article.

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Putting this article on the front page only makes sense if its real purpose is a new tax grab. Why should we worry about what we are eating when so many people can't keep a roof over their head and food on the table. Why cause them additional guilt? And why worry about longevity when we have a surplus of seniors and an insecure social security system? When these health nuts find out how hard it is to be old and impoverished they might wish they had a nice heart attack at 65. Population control can be solved by dieing at a reasonable time in addition to birth control. I would bet the real reason they run these things is to stir up support for a junk food tax. Because no politician is going to say we took all your money to give to the rich, now we need your very life blood to support our lifestyle. No they will just scapegoat fat people to benefit fat cats.

Not that I am against taking out MSG, high frutocse corn syrup and the rest of the garbage out of processed food. But the title of this long winded article still implies the blame is with the person and not the food manufacturer. And I didn't want to wade through all four pages. How many others just read the headlines? Tell people what MSG does to them in 200 words or less, fight additives one at a time to make things better. Oh wait! That benefits everyone. Sorry, isn't the real agenda to benefit the rich under the ruse it is for our own good?

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This article just missed the target. The medical industry makes FAT, OBESE, DIABETIC, HEART DESEASED RATS using MSG (or umami as is so innocently used). Go to National Library of Medicine and search "MSG Rats" and see for yourself. They claim there is no link to the effects on people but there is no direct research in the biochemistry of MSG in food, on people; and only scant research in the epidemiology of its effects on populations. Something like 3 billion tons were distributed globally in 2006. This neuro disruptor (glutamic acid) MSG stuff is an EPA approved crop treatment (Auxigro) for cryin out loud!

This isn't a case of J. Doe willfully satisfying a pleasure eating itch provided to him by a benevolent supplier. Its more a case of a corporate based narco-state co-opting with the health care industry to process its consumers exactly like Tyson processes its chickens. Consumers 2.0.

I urge the author to please, please dig into the MSG aspect, its history, and commercial development more thoroughly and continue his excellent reporting.

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HELP! HEALTH CARE REFORM IS BEING CRUSHED!!!!! Ten’s of millions of Americans lives will continue to be threatened so that special interests can make their profits!

Where are the pro reform people when we need them?

The mandates would involve "diverting additional billions to private insurers by requiring middle-class Americans to purchase defective policies from these firms - policies with so many gaps and loopholes that they currently leave millions of our insured patients vulnerable to financial ruin," says a letter signed by more than 3,500 doctors and released last week by Physicians for a National Health Program.

Days ago, a New York Times headline proclaimed an emerging "consensus" and "common ground" on Capitol Hill. In passing, the article mentioned that lawmakers "agree on the need to provide federal subsidies to help make insurance affordable for people with modest incomes. For poor people, Medicaid eligibility would be expanded."

It's a scenario that amounts to expansion of health care ghettos nationwide. Medicaid's reimbursement rates for medical providers are so paltry that "Medicaid patient" is often a synonym for someone who can't find a doctor willing to help.

But what about "the public plan" - enabling the government to offer health insurance that would be an alternative to the wares of for-profit insurance firms? "Under pressure from industry and their lobbyists, the public plan has been watered down to a small and ineffectual option at best, if it ever survives to being enacted," says John Geyman, professor emeritus of family medicine at the University of Washington.

A public plan option "would do little to mitigate the damage of a reform that perpetuates private insurers' dominant role," according to the letter from 3,500 physicians. "Even a robust public option would fore go 90 percent of the bureaucratic savings achievable under single payer. And a kinder, gentler public option would quickly fail in a health care marketplace where competition involves a race to the bottom, not the top, where insurers compete by NOT paying for care."

While the health care policy outcomes are looking grim, the supposed political imperatives are fueling the desires of Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill to produce a victory that President Obama can tout as health care reform. Consider this quote from "a prominent Democrat" in the August 10 edition of Time magazine: "Something called health-reform legislation will pass. The political consequences of not passing anything would be too great."

The likely result is a glide path to disaster.

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1. A picture at the top of lots of lettuce and tomato may be misleading (see below).

2. When is the last time you saw-- or heard-- the word "bolus" (the body of food in process of being chewed-- less usefully referred to as "mouthful"). I hope this article will help some folks start thinking about chewing food. The entertainment propaganda industry has trained us to have an ignorant disgust for saliva (the word "spit" say it all) so we are led to overlook the importance of ensalivating all the food before swallowing-- thus as Gupta says, the average Joe chews 10 times before swallowing instead of 25). The customer feels virtuous about buying lettuce and tomatoes but amid the easily swallowable "adult baby food" little bits of lettuce go down inadequately chewed and are not digested.

3. Check the role of cigarettes, a form of self-medication to keep junk food addicts from gaining weight. As fear of cigarettes reduced smoking, catastrophic rose. Time to promote safe nicotine-administration systems such as E-CIGARETTE.

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"Kessler explains how food is engineered to deliver pleasing flavors, aromatic and textural sensations and dissolve easily in the mouth. He writes: "in the past Americans typically chewed a mouthful of food 25 times before it was ready to be swallowed; now the average American chews only ten times." Even the bolus -- the wad of chewed food -- is designed to be smooth and even. It's "adult baby food.' "
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Well, well; if evolution follows the food industry, humans in future generations will be saying bye-bye to their teeth. What's the point of having them, when they just get in the way of savoring that tantillizing, no-need-to-chew bolus? (In this respect, traditional English cooking, which used to render everything to the point of mush, was 'way ahead of the American food industry –– and the English had the toothless mouths by middle-age to prove it.)

Of course, the Law of Unintended Consequences will work its magic in favor of men and their girlfriends, when those teeth, which get in the way of another couple of activities as well, are no longer there to scrape and hurt ...

Oh, what a glorious future we behold, when we can gum into submission both our food and our significant others! Ya-hoo!

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Sweet, salty and fat are three tastes that taste great together. But it's the sweet stuff that's driving obesity, heart disease, diabetes and cancer. I'm glad this article mentioned flour as being analogous to sugar, but the rest of it? It's regurgitated Kessler.
Your body needs salt and fat to survive but not processed sugars and starches.
Sugars are Triple Agents. They drive hunger, trigger fat storage, and are food for otherwise short-lived cancer cells.
On top of that, it's well documented now that they increase small low density lipoprotien production, which are THE cause of heart disease.
Sugar's role in diabetes doesn't need mentioning as it's well established.
The fingering of fat as the bad guy is driven by some Puritanical self-loathing.
Let's face it: some people out there would rather take a complete meal in a pill than ever actually enjoy and take pleasure in Real Food.

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Thanks for this fantastic article, but thanks for recognizing that this is primarily an American problem. I grew up in Chicago, but I've lived in Eastern Europe now for 20 years. Riga, Latvia, which is the city in which I live, has five McDonald's restaurants, but no Burger Kings, Starbucks (thank God), etc., etc., etc. I am 49 and old enough to control my cravings even though I absolutely agree with Paul Bocuse in the idea that McDonald's makes the absolutely best French fries in the entire world (less so since they gave up on animal fat, the wretches). But when I'm in Chicago on my annual sojourn back to the States to visit my sisters, who still live there, I have breakfast as often as I can at Louie's on California Avenue, where you can get eggs over easy, bacon, hash browns and buttered toast, and lunch as often as I can at Red Lobster, both close by. I always come back to good, environmental and vegetable-understanding Latvia five pounds heavier than I left two weeks earlier. Grieve, America, for the easy availability of all that makes people fat, fat, fat, fat, fat, fat, fat.

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Read any label - Common ingredients in most/all processed food. What exactly are these substances? If I have my info correct - FDA allows chemicals to be classified as artificial and natural flavors. Chemicals that make you fat, make you crave more of the food, make it not spoil. Also preservatives like potassium sorbate. Food corps WILL NOT TELL YOU WHAT THESE CHEMICALS ARE. I think we need to dig a little deeper than fat-salt-sugar.

Also - where is the personal responsibility? Everyone controls what goes into their mouth... Hey, if you eat it, then you reap the consequences.

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THE CAUSE OF THIS FOOD SLAVERY IN AMERICA IS THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM. THE CAPITALISTS HAVE CAPTCHURED THAT ADDICTION AND USED IT FOR PROFITS

The differences between Latin Americans and USAmericans is that Latin Americans are awake. While the only thing that the USAmericans, the Wal-Mart ANTI-POLITICS, POLITICAL-APATHETIC conformist zombiefied boring drones worry about is binge-eating on Duncan Hines, Pillsbury rolls, frozen pizzas, Pillsbury crossaints (They are good shit), Tostitos with melted cheese, etc. fig-bars, doritos, corn-dogs, pancakes, pillsbury cakes, kraft cheese, Nabisco Ritz cookies, combos, oreos, pop-tarts, combos, tostitos, fajitas, calzonis, Cicis pizzas, Sonic Drive in, Golden Corral, I-hop all u can eat buffets, potatoe salads, twinkies, little debbies, donkin donuts, struddles, apple jax, pecan pies, ice cream, M and ms, Twix, Snickers bars, chocolate chip cookies

RICOTTA and Butter are another tools used by capitalist-controllers to sedate americans into an endless sleep of cheese, bread, butter and cake slavery.

Let's face it capitalism sucks and capitalist parties suck. Here in USA life is a hell for the majority of people. The capitalist American parties (Democrats and Republicans) have only produced: poverty, misery, diabetes, obesity, an epidemia of heart-related deaths and illnesses, foreclosures, tent cities, 20% of unemployment, 80 millions of americans in poverty, and 1 out of 6 american children starving. While a minority which is about 2% to 5% of the USA population is getting richer, and richer and richer. While the rest of americans is getting poorer, poorer and poorer.

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I believe eating within a balance diet is very effective. This doesn't mean that you need to deprive yourself from eating junk food. You still need to treat yourself once in a while to avoid too many cravings.

Gilbert

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The real cause of weight-gain is a diet high in carbohydrates. And the American average diet is too high in carbohydrates. High carbohydrate diets increase insulin levels, which in turn leads to fat-storage. Children can eat a diet high in carbohydrates because their insulin systems are not wrecked yet but adults cannot eat a lot of carbohydrates without packing on weight. But of course the capitalist doctors never mention that, because they want americans to be fat, and to have diabetes so that they can make money off diabetic and heart dicease patients. So the real solution for most US health problems is a diet low in starchy carbohydrates and higher in fruits and vegetables and low fat proteins. Along with a weight-training routine and aerobic exercising routine.

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Right now billions of our tax dollars go to farmers for the over production of corn, soy, and wheat. The corn subsidy makes corn syrup cheap. It also makes corn oil cheap. Together this allows the cheap production of corn sweetened and fried foods.

Ending all subsidies to corn production will save taxpayers money, reduce the size of government, and reduce our healthcare costs.

One thing the left needs to get through its collective head is that smaller government is something we should also be fighting for.

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When we see a new family shopping in our stores, the kids sometimes appear both mentally and physically agitated when they learn that our "junk food" section contains few of the bad ingredients you mention above. There is not just a physical component to junk food addition, but a learned visual one too. All natural, preservative-free dark chocolate almonds, when found in a samll clear bag with a simple white label, don't compete with well-known high-fat, high sugar, high taste, turbo-charged TV-reinforced branded packaging.

It takes a while, but you can re-acquire a taste for natural food and a relearn a true distaste for artificial ingredients (especially if the artificial ingredients are causing illness, discomfort, wieght gain, or sluggishness). We suggest to customers that they identify foods that make them feel better and function better, and ask them to reinforce their preferences for those healthy foods rather than those that provide only immediate, short-term gratification.

Click! - a lifelong healthy eater largely immune to the Dorito Syndrome.

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Poppycock....Balderdash....

I can make healthier fried chicken and
and hamburger for less money and in less time than eating out at KFS or McRipoff

wish i'd heard of the offer to make 7 pieces chicken 4 muffins etc for under $10. Easy Peasy

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When I was 18 I became deathly ill. I wanted to meet by sister's new husband, a chiropractor. When he heard my cough and saw my condition he said, "You need an adjustment!" "A What?" I exclaimed! I was worked on. In 24 hours I was completely CURED!
That experience showed me there are other ways to get better than pills which always made me sick.By the time I was pregnant as a married woman I had read extensively in Nutrition and Alternative Healing Methods. Sons were breast fed. (I was only woman in ward of 95 births that chose to breast feed 1960.)
My sons were raised on natural, homemade foods. For 38 years I enjoyed nearly perfect health. My sons did get a few things but nothing like their peers at school. As one person wrote, read labels...look at everything you put in your mouth...is this what Nature intended?
In 1976 I taught courses on learning about eating right in Adult Ed classes.MANY years later a fellow came to my home to stain my dining room table. Seems his wife took the course. He had had major heart problems. He took all the info she brought home and changed his way of eating. He thanked me profusely. He was healthy ever since.
Our bodies are such marvelous miracles....we must give it our best. Whole grains, fruits, vegetables, lean meats. Look into proper food combining. The book, 4 Diets 4 Blood Types, is a start. Don't gorge. Fall in love with the beauty of garden vegetables, gorgeous fruits,enjoy Nature, get away from TV, bring a few flowers in to enjoy no matter how humble your abode. Yes, you men too!. All those colors in foods have vibrations that enhance our spirits. Please keep the Planet clean. Walk barefoot on warm, moist earth, grass, love the clouds, find fresh air, get the sun on you. We're a part of it all! There are many other factors to being healthy, but at least, if you want a sturdy house, you build a solid foundation. Give your body the best. The rest is up to our individual Destinies. Honor your body!We are to be stewards of Mother Earth, not her rapists. She will soon work hard to dispose of that which is poisoning her. Earth is a living, breathing entity. When our blood gets polluted we get sick. Mother Earth's oceans and streams are sick. She will fight to heal. She will dispose of those who hurt her. Do not laugh at this. We MUST protect Earth as we protect our loved ones. TOP PRIORITY!
Native American prophecies clearly state that our grandchildren will not live a full life expectancy the way we are now headed. ALL MUST care for this Planet!

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I will do mcdonalds tonite buy online

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YES, eat healthy, but don't forget to exercise!

& if you like the fries @ McDonalds...JUST get the fries! OnTheSame token: if you like BananaSplits @ 31 flavors, PERHAPS...
just once a week or once/ month!!!!!!!!!!!
One could even do BOTH~~~~~ still better than daily!!!!!!!!!!!

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