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To: epicure who wrote (172981)	10/2/2011 6:23:33 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) of 542950

The loophole that the junk food marketers exploit is that most of their target customers don't know what they don't know about nutrition and/or they really don't care much at all. I was fortunate to marry someone who didn't come from the US processed food tradition, and steered me in better directions over the years. I remember the story of a western AIDS expert who came to Lesotho. In his final report, he literally said that the Basotho were fucking themselves to death, compounding the dangerous virus with equally dangerous behavior (I'll spare you some of the gory details). That's the cultural norm, and seeing thousands die hasn't changed that. I don't think that food industry marketing will change until it stops working. And we've seen over the decades how content Americans are to eat themselves to death. Eating right is not more expensive if you shop carefully, and regular exercise is absolutely free in its most basic forms. People don't know or don't care to acknowledge and act on that. They buy the fatty crap and cheer themselves on.

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