Increasing the amount of sugar intake leads to a “bliss point” (a range) of maximum taste satisfaction, disposing the consumer to crave sugar (pp. With sugar and fat intake, brain pleasure centers light up bright yellow in functional magnetic resonance imaging studies (pp. Salt, sugar, and fat are “the three pillars of processed food” (pp. 27, 98), relying on salt, sugar, and fat, which “override our dietary self-control” with foods “so perfectly engineered to compel overconsumption” (pp. xxx), with 60,000 products in the supermarkets (pp. 213, 220) “dominate the American diet” (p. The 300 processed food manufacturers (pp. Welch Pogue, Esq., had a major heart attack at the age of 57, read about heart disease, right away lost 30 pounds on purpose, adopted an essentially low-fat, plant-based diet, and in time walked 1 hour every day until his death at over 103½ years of age-with his mind as sharp as a tack to the end. Definitely overweight, my father, the Honorable L. Heart disease is the number one cause of mortality in America. Obesity is correlated with coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and hypertension (high blood pressure), a risk factor for myocardial infarction (heart attack) and heart failure (with an increased workload for the heart) (pp. A BMI of 25 or greater indicates overweight. A “body mass index, a simple ratio of height to weight” (p. (This quotation and others, and much of the subsequent information in this article, is gleaned from the book.) A total of 35% of adult Americans are obese, and two-thirds are overweight (p. Today, the US is “the most obese country in the world” (p. In my opinion, all Americans should read the #1 New York Times best seller Salt Sugar Fat : How the Food Giants Hooked Us, by Michael Moss, a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist for The New York Times. At least on one occasion in the 1990s, the US Secretary of Agriculture proclaimed obesity a national epidemic. In 1998, the National Institutes of Health declared obesity a disease, and the US Surgeon General, David Satcher, MD, pronounced obesity a “national epidemic” as well. In 2004, the US Department of Health and Human Services designated obesity as a disease. Is it a coincidence that obesity is widespread?īy a vote on June 18, 2013, the delegates at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association classified obesity as an official disease. Unfortunately, the foods in category B, processed foods, are today preponderant in the American diet.
The foods in category A, the vegetables and fruits of the produce section, promote heart and general health.
In grocery stores and supermarkets, food sections may be roughly divided into two categories: (A) fresh produce, and (B) processed, prepared, preserved, and packaged food.
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