So, after two weeks of reading Salt, Sugar, Fat, what did I learn? I learned that, indeed, the Food Giants have hooked us, and they aren't about to turn loose. It is a problem we have created with our economic system, actually. These are corporations, their stock is traded on the stock exchange, you may even own stock in some of them. Their job is to sell product. Their mission is to increase profits every quarter. The only way to do that is to sell more and more, expand their lines, decrease their costs. Unless the government steps in and regulates food as it does drugs, the corporations won't - can't - change their ways. And the members of Congress who have to vote to institute regulations don't want to lose their jobs, so they won't do it.
It's up to each and every one of us. We have to read labels, be willing to cook more meals ourselves, not depend on processed food for our total nutrition. And we especially need to stay away from the fast food joints. If we can manage to stop buying enough of the food that's stuffed with salt, sugar and fat, then those corporations will switch to healthy products or die. After all, enough people stopped smoking to hurt Philip Morris. That's one of the reasons PM bought the food companies! It's time to do it again.
If you can't change your habits for yourself, then do it for your kids. Do you really want your son or daughter to have Type II diabetes by the time they are 40? Well, believe me, those Food Giants do not care. A corporation has no conscience.
Good Eating!
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