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Wednesday, February 27. 2013

Junk food "addictions"

Do the nanny-staters and busybodies want stores to sell food that people don't want to eat?


Here's an amusing response to that widely-linked NYT piece:  Sweet savage food marketing at the New York Times


Moss' hystrionic NYT article complained about food that panders to the human taste appeal of salty and sweet foods. Well, guess what - the human sense of taste is limited to sweet, salty, and bitter (and sour). So why didn't Moss complain about the pickles with the burger too? Or is sour OK with him?


Unsurprisingly, the appeal of fatty food is not taste, but textural and olfactory. However, as I have preached here many times, fatty food is good stuff and is required for health, vigor, and mental functioning.


Just skip those carbs if you wish to stay slim.





Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss at 16:24 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Thank you. More to ponder. Actually, the never-ending assault against personal responsibility. Wow, what a mess we are in!
#1 Westoakland on 2013-02-27 16:54 (Reply)
Everyone knows what healthy eating is and what junk food is. The problem we don't seem to understand is that everyone knows this but most don't agree. There are a number of diets (mediterranean, DASH, Mayo, etc.) or diet based belief systems (vegetarian, vegan, Paleo, etc) all having their supporters and heavily annotated books and studies to back them up. Our biases are made up of childhood likes and dislikes, parental choices, books we read, Doctors on TV and people who claim to be doctors of something and dribs and drabs of knowledge/propaganda we picked up over our lifetime. Then add in a very large dose of wishfull thinking (as in if you eat this diet you will live to 100 and never have heart disease). Mayor Bloomberg, Dr. Oz, Jamie Oliver, Michelle Obama and others are just the tip of the diet guru iceberg. The complexity of the science of food, the human DNA and diseases that confound conventional diet wisdom only serve to make the waters muddier and easier for the snake oil salemen to ply the diet confusion for easy marks. Where is the truth?
#2 GoneWithTheWind on 2013-02-27 17:20 (Reply)
OMG! Food made to match people's likes! The Horror! The horror.

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE! (Sorry; couldn't help myself.)
#3 Sam L. on 2013-02-27 21:18 (Reply)
Mmmm. Sweet bologna stogies wrapped up with pineapple cream cheese. From my cold, dead, smoky hands!
#4 Jewel (Link) on 2013-02-28 01:12 (Reply)
First they went for the smokers...and we said little or nothing.
#5 Mark on 2013-02-28 20:32 (Reply)

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