10 Things the Food Industry Doesn't Want You to Know
Two nutrition experts argue that you can't take marketing campaigns at face value
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Excellent article
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Don't forget that the vast majority of homes are either single-parent, or both parents work full-time just to make ends meet. Even though parents may know processed foods aren't very good for the family, many are contrained by the hours they work and their available time for preparing nutritious meals. A bag of chicken strips and frozen french fries, and maybe a can of corn, is a quick, easy meal for the family on the go. Our schedules are as much to blame as anything else.
Food Industry
The food industry is exactly that - an industry. It's the consumer of food that needs an education. One easily gotten if would pay attention to that rather than watching mind numbing television; another industry.
Teach nutrition early on
Well take a good look at school lunches and get rid of the zebra cakes, twinkies, doritoes, ice cream and soda that is all over the place. Kids don't think about nutrition, they just entertain their taste buds. Food is not for entertainment. All kids should have a mandatory nutrition class once they are 12-13 years old, and something substantial, not the retarded 4 food groups B.S. they have now. We need to give practical, simple advice on how to cook healthy, eat healthy on the go and explain healthy weight loss. We don't even get nutrition right for diabetics...now, so while we need to teach nutrition, what we teach, is just as important. So many people get their "health nutrition info" from TV, and it is so inaccurate. If we could make "the south beach diet" mandatory reading, that would be a helpful start.
Well stated
I did my final report for my political science class on "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan. It pretty much concluded all of the above. The main point (in my opinion) is that proccessed foods are far more profitable so they are marketed down our collective throats. My simple advice: avoid any "food" product that list "hydrogenated oil" or "high-fructose corn syrup". This is an easy way to avoid overly-proccessed foods. Seriously, try it!
Education
Educate Parents and Children. Isn't 1/3 of women in the US have children before 20? Encourage curiosity and research. Did I make that statistic up? What does that mean?
Stop the blame. Do eat well. Do share. Knowing is half the battle. Doing is the other half
food
when is the lecture?? i would like to come
whose fault is it
Yeah, it's the parents fault.
Advertising has no effect.
Lobbying congress has no effect.
Putting vending machines in school has no effect.
Giving away free products to kids has no effect.
Fewer choices at the 7-11 has no effect.
Clowns selling hamburgers have no effect.
It's all the parents fault!
It makes you wonder why the fast food makes waste billions of dollars on all those things which have no effect.
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