When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest - the added sugars and fats in processed foods.
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Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.
While the surfeit of cheap calories that the U.S. food system has produced since the late 1970s may have taken food prices off the political agenda, this has come at a steep cost to public health.
It's not the fat that's making you fat: it's not understanding separating carbohydrates from protein and fat.
When you do snack, stick with healthier options like fruits, veggies, nuts, and low-fat, whole-grain products.
Sugar was an issue in the '80s, so you would see low-sugar products; fat was an issue in the '90s, so you'd see low-fat products.
The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one third of children and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese and are more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Taking in too much added sugar from highly marketed sugary foods and drinks displaces healthier foods in the diet.
For the vast majority of those who are obese - those with a Body Mass Index over 30 - their size is their choice. They choose to take in more calories than they burn. They choose to take in high fat calories over low-fat ones. They choose to fad diet, if they choose to diet at all.
The problem with the standard American diet, a primary cause of our current obesity epidemic, is the fact that the majority of foods consumed are high in calories and low in micronutrients.
I was definitely one of those people who fell for the fat-free cookies and chips that are loaded with sugar and calories.
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