2HOTinPHX
Full time employment: Posting here.
I totally agree with what you are saying. Go to the grocery store and look at all products that are bad for you verse the good for you products. We are so good at churning out carb and sugar products it's scary and hard to resist.Part of the health problem this country has is the economy's tendency to promote unhealthy, nutritionally unbalanced products. When was the last time you saw a television commercial for kale or broccoli? McDonalds and Burger King, conversely, have a huge ad budget.
Then there's the tendency for makers of processed food to add high levels of sugar or salt to make their product more appealing. Check the sodium content in a can of soup.
People who want or need cheap, convenient dietary options may have little choice but to consume foods that, in the long run, are bad for them. And producers of those products spend big bucks to stimulate that market. It's easy to blame the consumer in this case, but some blame has to rely on the producers of unhealthy products as well.
My wife is admin assistant for a guy who owns a very successful small pizza chain. They make a ton of dough outta selling that artery clogging delicious crap...yet the owner is pretty conscious about his own health...LOL....
We the human race get a big fail when it comes to taken care of our food needs..profit over people