 Posted: Sun, Oct 21 2007, 7:18 pm EDT Post subject: You Are What You Grow |
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| Interesting! There is a relationship between waist line and farm bill!
"The farm bill essentially treats our children as a human Disposall for all the unhealthful calories that the farm bill has encouraged American farmers to overproduce." You Are What You Grow 
By MICHAEL POLLAN Published: April 22, 2007 A few years ago, an obesity researcher at the University of Washington named Adam Drewnowski ventured into the supermarket to solve a mystery. He wanted to figure out why it is that the most reliable predictor of obesity in America today is a person’s wealth. For most of history, after all, the poor have typically suffered from a shortage of calories, not a surfeit. So how is it that today the people with the least amount of money to spend on food are the ones most likely to be overweight? ... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/magazine/22wwlnlede.t.html |
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