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To: Dale Baker who wrote (172982)	10/2/2011 7:45:44 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542946

If 100 is the average IQ, expecting all people to fight Madison avenue, when marketing is becoming more and more sophisticated, is a bit much. Most of the educated people I know are not obese. But they know what they need to eat, and they exercise- in pleasant ways. When we're talking about a rather stupid person, who is on their feet all day- working at some chain store, or serving meals at McDonalds- are we really going to expect them to educate themselves on nutrition, go home and prepare a good meal, and then do some cardiovascular workouts? Hey- don't get me wrong, I'm FOR them doing that- I'm just not sure how you get them going. They are marketed to 24/7 wrt to cheap, fattening and easy food- and most Americans are worn out and dog tired after work, and they want a little comfort. Unfortunately comfort from Madison ave comes packaged with lots of poor quality fat, high salt, high carbs and not very much nutrition. Seems to me, most consumers are unequipped, mentally, to meet the challenge of resisting the American Fast and Convenience Food Borg. I know the republicans hate the whole nanny state idea- but we have decades of evidence that Americans on their own are unable to make healthy food choices when the market forces are arrayed against them. I'm not sure how fat and unhealthy Americans need to get before republicans wake up to the fact that the market IS the problem. Foods have been created to engender cravings in customers. Then these foods are marketed to hook consumers, and pander to their cravings. The foods are easy, and put in places where customers will grab them first. This is sort of the idea example of what the market does, and how amoral it is. Of course if you can just cheer "Let 'em die" or "Let them go blind with diabetes"- I guess there's really no problem.