Hey, Rush Limbaugh: the Wall Street Journal says agribusiness made you fat - The Reset Economy - TIME.com (via mikehudack)

That’s a pretty startling stat. Perhaps the cocaine boom in the 80’s was an attempt to stem this tide. Looks like Appetite won that battle.
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Actually, Snack Wells won the battle. And reduced-fat chips, diet coke, and every other processed, preserved, and packaged item on the supermarket shelves screaming to consumers about how healthy they are. People think they can eat their way to healthiness, and that because snacks are labeled “lite” or “reduced fat” they can eat them by the bag. The phrases are pure marketing, the worst requiring the most creative campaigns, which is why the best body fuel in the super market sits silent in the produce section while the chips and desserts dazzle with all sorts of diet trends, nutritional loopholes, and calorie misrepresentations. Most of these foods will advertise as low-fat, but to achieve an edible product will double the amount of sugar in the product, some do the opposite, some just load up on replacement additives that are even worse for you than sugar. Diet coke may have zero calories and zero carbs, but it affects your liver and causes it to produce fat the same way regular coke does… It all comes down to trying to cheat health, which you cannot do.

People overeat, sometimes because of the 24/7 stream of advertising begging them to never stop, to get a “fourth meal,” etc, sometimes because we’re all over-stressed and eat for the doping effect of stuffing our faces, sometimes just because a single plate at The Outback could feed a family of five in any other country in the world. In Europe the three main food groups are butter, cheese, and chocolate, but they are wildly more healthy and fit than we are because they eat the food they want in reasonable portions. We deny will ourselves the butterscotch budino at Mozza (note: NEVER deny yourself the butterscotch budino at Mozza) then overcompensate by eating an entire package of “healty” cookies that never satisfy, or opt for the tasteless, heavily preserved subway sandwich soaking in calorie rich sauce instead of just grabbing that one In N Out cheeseburger that sounded so good. We eat in our cars, eat on the couch in front of the tv, eat garbage out of “Costco closet” at work all day, and our bodies don’t even have a sense of appetite anymore. If anything, the cocaine-coated 1980s just ushered in this era of excess and addiction to food that has made Chester Cheetah and those Keebler elf shitheads into the Pablo Escobars of this generation.