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Originally Posted by GA Russell
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I think that that is all pablum.
The food giants are only responding to consumer demand. If they manufacture a pre-sweetened cereal, for example, and decide to lower the sugar to make it more heathful, they lose sales. Consumers want the sweeter stuff.
A proposed "answer" is for the government(s) to step in and force companies to manufacture such-and-such product with only such-and-such amount of salt, sugar, fat of whatever. Or do like mayor Blomberg did, and limit the size of the Big Gulps sold in New York City. I am philosophically opposed to both. And I don't think that they work--people find a workaround to the restrictions (like buying two, smaller Big Gulps, instead of the larger one which has been banned).
Oh, and I don't believe the concept that we acquire a taste for sugar, salt, fat, etc. I think that we are hardwired to like them.
This post is only in response to the apparent premise of this book, and is not intended to start a political discussion on this thread.