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...cost of food--quality food--is perhaps the best place to start. Calorically speaking, the best bang for the buck tends to be packed with sugar, fat and refined grains (think cookies and candy bars). In general, processed foods hog ever larger portions of all Americans' diets--one reason we spend just a tenth of our incomes on food today, compared with a fifth in 1950. But a pound of lean steak costs a lot more than a pound of hot dogs. "The stomach is a dumb organ," says J. Larry Brown, director of the Center on Hunger and Poverty...
...ingenuity. She plunges in with a taste test. "Yech! So sour!" she complains. "And it sticks to your hands." Popping on her reading glasses, Nestle, who chairs the department of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, casts a practiced eye on the label. "Nothing but sugar, corn syrup and a bunch of food additives," she says, sighing. "What kid can resist this...
...chartreuse hue. It reads, "Mom and Dad, you'll feel great about offering it to your kids because Munchies Kids Mix is a good source of 8 essential vitamins and minerals, has 0 grams trans fat and meets nutritional guidelines established by [Texas fitness expert] Dr. Kenneth Cooper for sugar, fat and sodium." The snack is a mix of Cheetos, Doritos, Rold Gold pretzels, SmartFood popcorn, Cap'n Crunch cereal and M&M-like candy. "See what we're up against?" laments Brownell, who is director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders. "This is being promoted...
...Verb campaign, encouraging young Americans to be active. "Eat less" is another matter. In the past, federal efforts to tell Americans to eat less meat have been foiled by lobbying from the Cattlemen's Association. Attempts to tell people to eat fewer sweets have raised the hackles of the sugar and corn-refining industries. Ultimately, the government winds up putting out such bland advice as "Choose two to three servings of lean meats" and "Moderate your intake of sugars" rather than a clear "Eat less" message. "If you're dealing with obesity, people have to eat less," Nestle insists...
...from fuel to power cars and trucks to the polymers in plastics. But most of all, we eat it. Our cats and dogs eat it. Even the cattle, chicken, hogs and fish that we eat eat it. In the form of high-fructose corn syrup, it is cheaper than sugar and as ubiquitous as advertising. Harvesting about 286 million tons of corn a year is no accident. It's U.S. industrial policy...