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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey OP, eating healthier has nothing to do with lack of money or education.

It is LITERALLY aout passing the vegetable aisle and going for the Twinkies. It's a lack of will power by the individual.

No amount of money or government indoctrination will fix that.[/quote]

I used to think like you. I've never struggled with weight and I'm fit and trim. I don't eat twinkies, etc. But as I've looked into the issue, I have become aware that we have many cancer causing additives in our food- even healthy food that normal people eat, like yogurt, bread, salad dressing, etc. These are items that are part of a typical healthy diet, yet can cause cancer because of the way they are made in the US. Even our vegetables are less nutrient dense than in previous generations- so simply avoiding processed foods only gets you part of the way there. Our food system has been so disrupted that you can't go to a regular grocery store *at all* and be assured that the food is healthy. [/quote]

I used to think this too. But I think what this train of thought misses is the huge effect that our microbiome has on psychology and food choices. A Chinese research company last summer found through the use of AI that they could distinguish between the excrement of people with autism and neurotypicals based on metabolites and other waste byproduct. (I might be a tad imprecise in my language, but I believe that is the upshot.). Anyone with experience with autism knows that, among those who suffer from the condition and have restricted diets, there is a clear preference for certain types of foods, often highly processed carbohydrates. You can debate how much of that is chicken and egg, but there is likely a feedback loop between microbiome and the psychology of food.

On that understanding, it seems very reasonable to expect the government to protect people from their own choices to some extent. [/quote]

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