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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alighieri who wrote (14489)	3/13/2010 5:47:53 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

are you saying that an overweight/obese person in rural america is so because he/she reads advisories of the DoA and NIH? No. I agree that their diet is mostly tradition. However, tradition evolves. It changes based on what is available, priced right, tasty, what is cool, etc. When canned vegetables became widely available, my mother switched to canned. When frozen later became available, she started buying frozen. When the first Dairy Queen showed up on the highway, we started going there. Mom cooked with bacon fat and butter. Then there was Crisco and white margerine. I remember as a kid squeezing yellow coloring into margarine when it became available that way. Later you could buy margarine already yellow. Either way, it was cheaper than butter due to DoA. So diet may start with tradition but is influenced by changes in the environment. If the government offers price supports to this or that, then we eat more this or that. Moms all over cooked with bacon fat and butter. They stopped to a considerable extent when the DoA and the NIH said they were bad for you and that you should eat Crisco and margarine instead. Then Crisco and margarine were bad for you and all sorts of fake margarine came on the market. You can't blame tradition for "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter. That's DoA and NIH and experts influencing public opinion and putting pressure on producers. I'm sure that in rural America they got Enteman's or some other reduced fat pastries when producers started substituting more sugar, salt, and frankenfat in their products. You now have schools teaching the food pyramid which, despite recent modifications, is still upside down from where it should be. Moms in rural America don't read the advisories. They watch Oprah who brings guests on who either read the advisories or influenced the advisories. They spot package labels required by the government. Moms in rural American get the news and learn the latest government nutritional decree. I asked at my favorite Afghan kabob joint what kind of fat was used in their vegetables and the owner smiled and proudly said "vegetable oil." He barely speaks English and I'm sure he doesn't rad advisories but somehow he managed to get the official word. I stopped going there regularly. I found another Afghan place that cooks with olive oil. I reread the above and it's more than a bit disjointed but I've run out of steam to redo it. Hope it suffices.