This will be brief, blunt, and -- forgive me -- perhaps a bit brutal.
I find it incredible that a culture embracing "junk" not only as a food group, but one of its largest; and the junkiest of such junk as the preferential food for its children -- keeps looking for something to blame for rampant obesity and chronic disease other than its own blend of naïve nincompoopery (we, the people); pecuniary propaganda (marketing, media); and predatory hypocrisy (industry). Rather than supporting the health of our bodies, our body politic is feeding off their willfully devised decay.
I imagine this may stick in some craws. What can I say? The truth does that sometimes.
-fin
P.S.-
Think it really matters if we fixate on sugar or fructose, meat or wheat, saturated fat or omega-6? I don't:
- No One Thing
- Why Holistic Nutrition Is the Best Approach
- Scapegoats, Saints, and Saturated Fats: Old Mistakes in New Directions
- Fructose, and the Follies of History
Think we are actually clueless about the basic care and feeding of Homo sapiens? I don't:
- Feeding Homo sapiens: Are We Truly As Clueless As We Seem?
- Diet, Weight, and Health: Confused Only If You Want To Be!
- Knowing What to Eat, Refusing to Swallow It
Think any of the "my diet is THE best diet" claims are valid? I don't:
- Judging the Judging of Diets
- Science Compared Every Diet, and the Winner Is Real Food
- Can We Say What Diet Is "Best"?
Think Ancel Keys is the anti-Christ? I don't:
- Living (and Dying) on a Diet of Unintended Consequences
- In defense of U research: The Ancel Keys legacy
Think we don't know what dietary pattern is best for health? I think we do!
- Can We Say What Diet Is Best for Health?
- Prevention and management of type 2 diabetes: dietary components and nutritional strategies
David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP is the founding director of Yale University's Prevention Research Center , President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine , and author of 'Disease Proof .' He has authored roughly 200 scientific papers and 15 books, including three editions of a nutrition textbook for health care professionals. If he weren't so shy, he'd tell you what he really thinks.
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