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Food and Health Fact #67
Fact #67: The food system's bias against healthy food
By Matthew Rees
Food and Health Fact #67: The food system's bias against healthy food
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This week's "food for thought" excerpt comes from How Not to Diet (2019), by Michael Greger, MD.
"The reason some of the unhealthiest foods are marketed is one of simple economics: Real food goes bad. Fruits and vegetables are perishable. What shareholders want is a snack cake that lasts for weeks on the shelf. On top of that, real food doesn’t have brand names. Why would a broccoli grower put an ad on TV when you’d just as likely buy their competitor’s broccoli? The system is simply not set up to reward the sale of health-promoting food."
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