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“Unhealthy Foods” are:
 | Abundant, cheap
| | Heavily promoted
| | Available 24 hours a day, virtually anywhere: Restaurants, vending machines, airports, drug stores, gas station mini markets, stadiums, schools, airplanes, discount chains, food courts, hospital cafeterias
| | Designed by food technologists to taste very good and keep people wanting (and consuming) more
| | They are calorie-dense; high-fat, high-sugar, low-fiber |
| ABC NEWS
PETER JENNINGS REPORTING
“How To Get Fat Without Really Trying”
12-8-03 Broadcast
“Our children eat so badly nowadays that a quarter of elementary school-aged children already have high blood pressure, high cholesterol or some other risk factor for heart disease.”
–– Margo Wootan
Center for Science in the Public Interest |
| “Very young children are now showing signs of Type 2 diabetes, a terrible disease that was never seen in such young children before. If you were going to design a strategy to get more people to eat more food, you would make food more convenient. You’d encourage people to eat more frequently and you’d encourage them to eat larger portions. All of those are deliberate strategies to sell more food.”
–– Marion Nestle
Professor, Food Policy, New York University & Author, Food Politics |
| “In the ’60s and ’70s, we consumed healthy snacks. Kids consumed milk. We consumed fruit, and what you would think of as really good foods. What’s changed in the last decade is, we’re consuming high-fat salty snacks. That could be tortilla chips or potato chips. Plus candies and desserts and so forth. We’ve really changed the nature of what we call a snack.”
–– Barry Popkin
Professor of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| “Processed foods are typically made from a mixture of sweeteners, water, flour, starch, fat, artificial colorings and flavorings. And you can make almost anything out of that. Puddings, snack foods, beverages. Those are dirt cheap to produce.”
–– Michael Jacobson, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), Washington, D.C. |
| “This project has proved to us that the processed food industry and the government know full well what is happening and they are making a bad situation worse.”
–– Peter Jennings
ABC News |
| “Of the total amount of money that supports American agriculture less than 1% goes toward fruits and vegetables, both production and promotion.”
–– Tom Stenzel
United Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Association
“If Americans were to follow a healthy diet, the USDA says nearly twice the number of acres of fruits and vegetables would have to be planted.”
–– Peter Jennings
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| “Obesity’s not going to be solved through sheer physical activity. We should exercise, but that’s only part of the battle.”
–– Michael Jacobson, Ph.D. |
| “You have to jog for 15 minutes to burn just one ounce of potato chips. You have to bike for an hour to burn the calories in this soda. And this supersized meal at McDonald’s has so many calories, you have to walk for six hours to burn it off. It is hard to see how exercise alone is the solution to obesity.”
–– Peter Jennings
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