I have just been to see "That Sugar Film" (highly recommended), read "Fat Chance" by Robert Lustig and am wading my way through "Salt, Sugar, Fat" by Michael Moss.
The gist of it is these is:
Sugar is addictive.
One calorie of one food type does not equal another due to the effects it has on the body metabolically.
The food industry creates food to addict people to them.
These foods are low cost and readily available.
Lots of people do not have facilities to cook.
Lots of people do not know how to cook.
In some areas healthy ingredients are not available due to location or cost.
Society has changed from delayed gratification to instant gratification - now if we are hungry we want to eat NOW and not have to wait while food is prepared and cooked.
Society has grown to believe that processed foods that were originally developed to be occasional foods are now everyday foods, even every meal or every hour.
Lack of education about poor food choices and effect on the body.
Lack of public health initiatives.
A lot of the programs in the US that provide free food etc provide foods that are not healthy ie packed with sugar in it's various forms such as orange juice.
Food industry not willing to make their products more healthy/delete product lines as they want the $$$'s.
Public having been brain washed in the past as to what is 'healthy food'.
Looking at ingredients, if it contains sugar it is classified as a dessert, and at the most should be consumed as an occasional food.
If there is more than a couple of ingredients it is a processed product. Processed products have the goodness removed. These products do not reflect on what the original ingredients were as they have been so altered, but on what was created in a lab.
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