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Improving diet and preventing obesity |
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Question: You’ve got $5 and ten minutes to get lunch. What will you have? Answer: Almost certainly something that’s bad for you. The toxic food environment provides us with widely available, appealing, cheap and wildly unhealthy food choices. Eating healthfully is far more difficult and more expensive. While billions are spent promoting high fat, high sugar foods, especially to children, there are virtually no efforts to market fruits, vegetables and whole grains — the foods we know help us maintain our weight and health. Obesity predictably has become a global epidemic. Clearly this is not an individual problem but a societal one. » Next: Growing a better food industry |
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