Nutrition
Waitress Eating Fast FoodThis discussion examines the food industry’s role in the obesity epidemic. The food industry intentionally creates ingredients, recipes, and food items that are high in sugar, fat, and salt. By doing so, it manipulates people into wanting and eating more and more of such foods.
Make sure to:
Read Kessler text: Chapters 14 through 18
Watch the video: Peter Jennings Reporting: How to Get Fat Without Really Trying (44:00 minutes)
Answer the following questions:
The food industry has been, and continues to be, intentionally processing whole crops and butchered animal products into ingredients, recipes, and food items that are high in sugar, fat, and salt and, ultimately, manipulating consumers into eating more and more of these foods. To what extent does the food industry take responsibility for or deny such claims? To what extent should the food industry be held responsible for the obesity epidemic? To what extent should the industry be legally allowed to continue to develop such ingredients, recipes, and food items?
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