Fixing Our Toxic Food Environment
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010, 1:56 PM
Natasha Singer takes on our toxic food environment in The New York Times. In “Fixing a World That Fosters Fat,” she argues that we’re bombarded every day by advertising and other toxic environmental factors that make it next to impossible to be a healthy nation. I’m reading David Kessler’s The End of Overeating, in which he makes the same case.
All of this should come as no surprise when we learn that Kellogg’s spends $15 million in just one year advertising Cap’n Crunch, while the past annual budget for USDA’s 5-A-Day fruit and vegetable promotion program is only $5 million. Sigh.
