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Obesity: Should Food Industry Be Blamed?

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Sort Desciption: Obesity: Should Food Industry Be Blamed? Marc Morano. CNSNews.com. 2/26/02. (CNSNews.com) - A new book on food and nutrition places the blame for obesity ...

Content Inside: Obesity: Should Food Industry Be Blamed? Marc Morano CNSNews.com 2/26/02 (CNSNews.com) - A new book on food and nutrition places the blame for obesity squarely on the "over-abundance of food" and on the unhealthy "environment of eating" in American society. And a prominent Washington attorney, whos already engineered one lawsuit against McDonalds, says obesity-related class-action suits are on the way. Author Marion Nestle, who has called for a junk food tax in the past, has written Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health. In the book, she calls for the government to hold food producers accountable for supplying an unhealthy diet. Critics call Nestle part of the food "Taliban," who are intent on stripping away individual choice. In her book, Nestle blames expanding waistlines on the availability of too much food and incessant food marketing. Nestle does not believe obesity is an individual problem, but a result of marketing forces. "The over abundance of food in the U.S. makes the food industry unhealthfully competitive," she said. Nestle is a professor and the chairwoman of the department of nutrition and food studies at New York University. She says her main concern is that "30 billion a year goes into trying to control what we eat . We have 320,000 food products in the United States. Give me a break! You dont need 320,000 food products to have a terrific diet with plenty of fun foods to eat." She says with such cultural forces at play, individual willpower eventually breaks down. "There is a common prejudice that people are fat because they are weak willed," she explained. "If you are sitting there with an enormous plate of food in front of you, you are going to eat it . Not everybody has that kind of will or that kind of strength of character to be conscious of what theyre eating all the time," Nestle said. "I see this as a societal probl ...

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