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I dunno if I'd just blame it on meats.
I do feel the food industry is partially to blame for some of this. The problem is a circular one, though. People want better tasting food, and often times better tasting food is also worse for you.
Since I started reading food labels, sometimes I'm amazed at just how much bad stuff goes into some things. Seemingly healthy products on the surface are actually laden with bad things.
The low-fat version is just higher in sugar content, or made with trans-fats which aren't reported until recently. The Healthy Choice isn't healthy at all. High in sodium, especially, and other types of bad things like MSG.
Consumers want it, so food companies produce it. Food companies produce it, so people buy it and eat it. And it continues.
It doesn't help that companies are mass-marketing unhealthy foods toward the children or their parents. Bagel bites, etc. Those things aren't healthy at all, however they're pumped in lots of TV commercials as "mom go buy this if you wanna be a good mother!" And these Lunchables things, or whatever they are. Pizza sticks with a soda. How in the world is that healthy? It's ridiculous.
On top of that schools, feeling the financial pinch, are adding vending machines with sodas and candy bars in their hallways. Lunch for some students becomes a Snickers and a Coke. Schools used to offer up somewhat nutritious albeit bad-tasting food in the cafeterias, and now it's just junk in the hallways. What do you think the student will pick? And the schools know it, $$$$$ is all they see.
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