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Originally Posted by sammyg2

because telling the truth is no longer PC or acceptable to "some" people.

Then tell the truth of how they got there as well.

Just a suggestion.

https://drhyman.com/blog/2015/05/21/eat-healthy-on-a-budget-with-these-strategies/

While today over 50 percent of meals are consumed outside the home..................

I think it's fair to say that eating out is a major part of the problem.

Money, Politics, and Health Care: A Disease-Creation Economy – Part II
https://drhyman.com/blog/2012/09/12/money-politics-and-health-care-a-disease-creation-economy-part-ii/

Subsidize the production of fruits and vegetables. Change the Farm Bill. Agricultural policies should support public health and encourage the production of fruits and vegetables, not commodity products like corn and soy. 80 percent of government subsidies presently go to soy and corn that are used to create much of the junk food we consume. We need to rethink subsidies and provide more for small farmers and for a broader array of fruits and vegetables....................

Impose limits on pharmaceutical and unhealthful food advertising. More than $30 billion is spent on marketing junk and fast food to consumers, including $13 billion targeted at children and more than $30 billion is spent by pharma on marketing drugs to physicians (about $30,000 annually per physician). Direct-to-consumer drug advertising also drives prescribing practices based on induced preferences rather than science.

Dr. Mark Hyman Paves the Way For Change with FOOD: What The Heck Should I Eat?
Dr. Mark Hyman Paves the Way For Change with FOOD: What The Heck Should I Eat? — Business Today Online Journal

5. How can the conundrum between the obesity rate in America and a rising general interest in diet and physical wellness be explained?

This is a good question. We have more knowledge about food and more options than ever, and yet, people are getting sicker and sicker because of lifestyle diseases. The challenge is that even us health conscious consumers are confused about what constitutes proper nutrition. Additionally, eating a whole foods diet filled with organic fruits and veggies, grass fed and pasture raised meats can become expensive and not easily available. It is possible to eat these foods on a budget, but it’s definitely easier and more convenient to eat cheap, processed foods. 160 million obese Americans are not just lazy gluttons. The chronic disease epidemic is not an accident.

The truth is that the food industry is hijacking our taste buds, our brain chemistry, our metabolism and waistlines with biologically addictive food made cheap and readily available on every corner in America (and increasingly the world) especially our school cafeterias, fast food restaurants, and our grocery stores.

Foods like breads, pasta, rice, cereals, cookies, pizza, oatmeal, and crackers are kept cheap and accessible to everyone because of federal farm subsidies and our tax dollars. Just one example of how we make the food industry rich and the taxpayers poor is how we subsidize wheat, corn and soy which get turned into junk food and fast food. So yes, we as consumers are responsible for this health epidemic, but so is the food industry.

In his PBS presentation Dr. Hyman said that fruits and vegetables now cost 40 percent more than they used to, while certain grains (wheat, corn, oats), sugar and soy cost 40 percent less than they used to all because of the affects of US government federal farm subsidies.

You might say the government and the food industry have conspired against the better interest of US citizens.

Tell the truth about that too, please.


Agricultural subsidy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy


Yes, you should be angry.