Opinion: Nutritional information often ignored
By Jane E. Brody, Washington Post
In the more than half a century that I’ve been writing about nutrition and health, I’ve witnessed many attempts to inform and improve the American diet, all the while watching young and old alike ignore sound nutritional advice and grow fatter and fatter.
Of course, individuals are not entirely to blame. The food and restaurant industries have done more than their share to lure people into bad eating and drinking habits. Stoking near-to-worthless breakfast cereals with added nutrients. Serving portions large enough to satisfy a racehorse. Selling snack foods and drinks in supersize containers, sometimes offered with free refills.
Purveyors of wholesome fruits and vegetables, beans and whole grains — even of meats, fish and poultry — can’t compete with the promotional billions spent by processed food giants that sell products of little or no nutritional value.
The “paying of real & relevant attention” I mentioned as a comment on the elimination of dams (as dinosaurs!) above applies here as well. . .
The $18 dollars a gallon for bottled water (calculated by the 2.00 price for very little water inside) coincides with this article, as Nestle & Coca-Cola end up charging much more for ordinary water than they do for a proportionate amount of soda – to “chase” the clientele into buying more sugared drinks than truly refreshing ones, but make money either way – at our continued expense. . .as it is in control of water that they will dominate, not the actual amount actually being drank. . . and “we” buy into that, absent much ‘buyer beware’…
Divide & Rule prevails !. . .