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This is from an email written by my mom...
THE SUNDAY MORNING SERMON: (I have two hobby horses... this is one)
OK so speaking of winking at corporations...
The general level of obesity in this country...you have noticed I'm sure,
Philadelphia being a winner in the overweight population poll.....not only does
it speak to our excesses as a people (and, alas, viewed with a very jaundiced
eye abroad I am learning) but even more, to the excesses of big biz and the
government's laissez-faire attitude. In the land of plenty, what we have plenty
of is over-processed, over-sugared food that we eat up like good little piggies,
without so much as a whimper of protest. The French, God bless them, should
go on both as a government and as a people bitching about the import of our
"look-of-food" food products and I wish them luck...it grieves me so to see
McDonald's getting a toe-hold there. And it is sugar, sugar, sugar along with
the fat. There is now a whole industry of "low-fat" foods that make up the
difference with sugar...and we don't see our population getting any
thinner....on the contrary. I am currently noticing that young girls (the
vainest segment of the population) now show a new esthetic of the young pot
belly revealed between the hip-huggers and the short tight shirt. Wait till the
elasticity of the young flesh is gone and it's just flab. yum. Would our gov
ever speak to the food industry and say let's put our heads together to help the
health and welfare of our fattening population?? no no no. And of course, the
food biz gets to say, as does the media biz (ah, the OTHER pet peeve) "We're
just giving the people what they want." I love that argument. Who spends
billions creating the want? Who makes it so difficult to find other than food
junk? Why should it be so much more expensive to buy clean, whole food? I leave
the answers to your intelligent mind. OK I'm done. But take some time in
the supermarket to read food labels and play the sugar game (don't forget all
its many names. The FDC lost it's battle to have the food industry lump all the
different sugars together. The result would have very clearly been that the list
of ingredients with are posted in descending order of quantity, would have to
always start with SUGAR. How can industry get away with this?
A tirade, no?
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