The article I read was on CBSNews.com titled " The Blame Game & Obesity in America". It talked about how consumers and and big food companies should both be to blame for the obesity problem. Although the food companies basically say it's not our fault consumers are getting fat of our product they should make better choices. Even though these companies do have multibillion-dollar marketing ads. That target adults and children. Which can lead to unhealthy eating choices.
It also doesn't help that the food industry is lagging in the nutrition research area. Which has led to most companies to have " nutrition research overload". In order to make up years and even decades on missed opportunities to do important research. Such as when it came to trans fats. It was always believed that saturated fats was the enemy. This lead to companies to reformulate their products. In order to try and get rid of the saturated fat. Only later to realize that the trans fats they replaced the saturated fat with was even worse.
And in a even more conspiracy like viewpoint has lead people to believe in something even more drastic. People like Dr. David Katz who believes companies have made their food more "addictive". And if this is true it leads people to crave and want the companies food even more. Although officials who work in the food industry don't know of any company doing so. Even if they are doing this or not people will still eat the companies product no matter how unhealthy it is.
The conclusion I came up with is no matter what is done to combat obesity it will always be a problem. It's the consumers choice of what he or she decides to eat.
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