The End of Overeating

[Satori]

http://www.zesterdaily.com/zester-soapbox-articles/181-trained-to-get-fat

new book out
supposed to explain why Americans are literally trained to overeat

[OutOfStep351]

That's easy. It's because their overeating makes certain corporations and certain individuals vastly wealthy.

[justalurkerlurking]

I'm reading this.  I'm about 1/2 done.  It makes me sick to my stomach.

[OdysseusNTexas]

  If you are sick to your stomach you wont be tempted to overeat! 

[Broil]

"Individuals absolutely should have the right to choose what they eat, and businesses by their very nature seek to make money. The government, however, has a role to play in preventing predatory behavior by business -- and that means that the government has a responsibility to reform our food system. Until the feds abandon their hands-off approach to food, don't expect the tide to turn on diet-related chronic disease."

Very simply, the analysis is true but the govt is not going to be allowed to interfere with food manufacturers' profits.

It's a classic example of a clash of Constitutional rights against what is safest or best for humans ....... the people at this time are in no mood for more govt nannyism, even if that's what's best for them.

We have to learn to not eat highly processed foods, or even too many natural foods that have a lot of fat, sugar, or glutamates in them.  Even that's not the whole problem, but it would take a big load off.

[quietnite]

Government corn subsidies, means that government has a hand in how the cheapest food is based on mountains of cheap corn and they are hand in hand with the corporations that have trained the eating.