http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/food-addiction-could-it-e_b_764863.html
The article talks about food as an addiction, compares overeating with substance addiction: things I'd heard or read somewhere before and knew somewhere in my own mind, but maybe needed a refresher.
I love food and I try to keep Anna to the healthy stuff. But she's a kid and she's allowed candy within reason. Processed food happens a lot on travel, and frankly, too many meals out of boxes at home. I do read the labels: no HFCS, and whole grains, reduced sugar where I can. But this article puts an interesting spin on how to help Anna learn to eat right. If not for obesity control, then to control addiction to food. The article blames industry for secretly making us addictive to their stuff. Now I'm certainly not the conspiratory theorist type, but at one point cigarettes were harmless. Big industry. Something to think about.
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I completely agree. Obesity is the single biggest threat to US health now. Just as cigarettes can't use cartoons to target children and liquor companies can't put up billboards around schools, I think we need some laws and standards to control the way food companies target children. At the very least, no low-shelved nasty cereals in the grocery store. This is honestly more of a matter of national security than terrorism and it has more to do with national financial spending than mortgages.
Whenever I go to schools I see nothing but candy machines. Its bewildering. Mind you at the clinic I often see obese children and when I try to talk to their parents about they often get offended. Largely because they are often obese as well. Its a family education thing - but many people simply dont want to know
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