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but we'll round them up and have them making Bowflexes. or maybe bicycles and tennis raquets.
Food Companies to Blame in Obesity: Article
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but we'll round them up and have them making Bowflexes. or maybe bicycles and tennis raquets.
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you can and should blame them.
They market so much crap on TV as healthy and I'm not even talking fast food or subway.
I'm talking Diet Coke, Lean Pockets, Fat Free Fig Newtons, Uncle Ben's Bad Version of Rice, Whole Wheat Bread, Juice, Pretzels, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, 300 calories Salad Dressing and so forth.
Ask most Americans if they think OJ, Whole Wheat Toast, Banana, Sugared Oatmeal and a big tall Glass of Whole Milk is a healthy breakfast and they will say yes.
Sure it's not as bad as 2 bowls of Cocoa Puffs, but its a ton of sugar and carbs.
Most people know fast food is bad, but they don't understand that old fashioned eating habbits from the 1950's weren't good for everyday diets. The old pyramid on cereal boxes didn't help much either. Last time I checked, 11 servings of breads, cereal and pasta wasn't that great. Although it'd be nice if you can have 1 serving of pie everynight.
EDIT: If I had to name 3 things making Americans fat it's...
1.) Soda
2.) Bread
3.) Bright Lights
Is it a coincidence all fast food chains serve some sort of soda, bread and are brightly colored and well lit?
But seriously, many people eat in front of a TV now a days. Aside from the light in your living room / kitchen, TV shows, for the most part, are brightly lit and colorful, which makes you feel "happy" for lack of better words, but it has been proven to make you eat more. Besides the calories and sugar, drinking soda, compared to water, makes you hungrier while eating. And bread is always used as a filler to get that "full" filling.
On top of that, from gradeschool, during childhood, you're taught to have a soda and sandwhich for lunch.
I'd say most fat people would lose 5lbs in a month if they ate the same dinner on smaller plates, in a dim room, without any television; just company to talk to.
Why do we need 15 inch plates and 24 oz cups? Or better, why do we buy bowls that can fit 3 servings of cereal?
They market so much crap on TV as healthy and I'm not even talking fast food or subway.
I'm talking Diet Coke, Lean Pockets, Fat Free Fig Newtons, Uncle Ben's Bad Version of Rice, Whole Wheat Bread, Juice, Pretzels, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, 300 calories Salad Dressing and so forth.
Ask most Americans if they think OJ, Whole Wheat Toast, Banana, Sugared Oatmeal and a big tall Glass of Whole Milk is a healthy breakfast and they will say yes.
Sure it's not as bad as 2 bowls of Cocoa Puffs, but its a ton of sugar and carbs.
Most people know fast food is bad, but they don't understand that old fashioned eating habbits from the 1950's weren't good for everyday diets. The old pyramid on cereal boxes didn't help much either. Last time I checked, 11 servings of breads, cereal and pasta wasn't that great. Although it'd be nice if you can have 1 serving of pie everynight.
EDIT: If I had to name 3 things making Americans fat it's...
1.) Soda
2.) Bread
3.) Bright Lights
Is it a coincidence all fast food chains serve some sort of soda, bread and are brightly colored and well lit?
But seriously, many people eat in front of a TV now a days. Aside from the light in your living room / kitchen, TV shows, for the most part, are brightly lit and colorful, which makes you feel "happy" for lack of better words, but it has been proven to make you eat more. Besides the calories and sugar, drinking soda, compared to water, makes you hungrier while eating. And bread is always used as a filler to get that "full" filling.
On top of that, from gradeschool, during childhood, you're taught to have a soda and sandwhich for lunch.
I'd say most fat people would lose 5lbs in a month if they ate the same dinner on smaller plates, in a dim room, without any television; just company to talk to.
Why do we need 15 inch plates and 24 oz cups? Or better, why do we buy bowls that can fit 3 servings of cereal?
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Most tobacco companies also have large amounts of stock in the pharmaceutical industry.JavaGuru said:
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When food companies have acquired an amount of capital they seek to reinvest, similar to other types of businesses. Unfortunately, they don't know the first thing about growing actual food so they invest laterally. That is, they take what they know (processing and marketing a product) and apply it to another segment of the market. While this seems to make good business sense, it creates an extra amount of corperate bureaucracy because the left hand doesn't actually know what the right hand is doing. The cost of these inefficiencies are then passed on to the consumer, both in terms of price and responsiveness to changing consumer demands. More importantly, it results in the farmer being unable to share in any synergies created the new market structure. This just further seperates farming from what we call our modern lifestlyle and insures continued govt. intervention (subsidies and so forth) in the marketplace.
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The formation of mega corporations is just another business cycle. Those formed in the 1970's just found themselves being split up in the 1980's. This is happening in the banking and healthcare sectors as well, mass consolidation under a handful of holding corporations. The dominant theory of management was centralized planning which was a massive failure. The modern version is decentralized but that has been relatively unsuccessful for optimizing efficiency and profitability. Like you pointed out, organizational communication is a major problem.
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