That is an awfully big industry

Pun both intended and unintended.

An awful lot of businesses are making an awful lot of money on our obesity. Between the growers, manufacturers, distributors, and stores and restaurants that give us unhealthy food and the pharmaceuticals and health care we consume to make up for our bad food choices, that's a large chunk of the economy. A quick Google tells me about $1.2T a year, all told.

In response to this post by MP4VT2004

Posted: 06/18/2019 at 12:44PM

The Most Effective Diet For Reducing The Worst Kind Of Fat -- EDGEMAN 06/18/2019 09:22AM

Low fat dieting has been a crock for this entire century. It feels like -- BG Hokie 06/18/2019 10:18AM

No different than fake sugars, body reaction is the same as sugar -- Vienna_Hokie 06/18/2019 10:52AM

This is out of left field and hardly seems relevant to my post but I'd like -- BG Hokie 06/18/2019 11:27AM

Sounds like maybe indirectly, but not the "same" -- 48zip 06/18/2019 1:41PM

Same article I read after reading Vienna's post. I agree with all of that -- BG Hokie 06/18/2019 1:54PM

On my journey to losing 50#, I wouldn't have made it without Coke Zero -- Tafkam Hokie 06/18/2019 2:10PM

Gone grocery shopping lately? -- Beerman 06/18/2019 10:39AM

True about food labeling but I haven't heard of anyone going no a low fat -- BG Hokie 06/18/2019 10:43AM

I think the "no fat" labels are there to amuse. And they do. ** -- 48zip 06/18/2019 11:00AM

First study I've seen where they used MRIs to study internal body fat. -- EDGEMAN 06/18/2019 10:28AM

Agree, study looks pretty ground breaking IMO. A subject I'm extremely -- BG Hokie 06/18/2019 10:55AM

If the goal is "reducing fat around the liver (hepatic fat), heart and -- Late 80s Hokie 06/18/2019 10:14AM

Isn't losing fat around those places specifically more healthy? Isn't more -- BG Hokie 06/18/2019 10:19AM

I'm wondering what type of mascot they have at old BGU ** -- Bburg Native 06/18/2019 09:58AM

Step one for any finding by a team of researchers -- Tafkam Hokie 06/18/2019 09:53AM

Funded by Big Fat™ ** -- MP4VT2004 06/18/2019 12:37PM

That is an awfully big industry -- Tafkam Hokie 06/18/2019 12:44PM

Feel free to show any legitimate study that proves a "Low Fat" diet is... -- EDGEMAN 06/18/2019 09:58AM

I'm in no way disputing these findings per se -- Tafkam Hokie 06/18/2019 10:20AM

Science -- Beerman 06/18/2019 10:42AM

I'm not looking for settled truth that never changes -- Tafkam Hokie 06/18/2019 11:14AM

We are all generalists. -- Beerman 06/18/2019 11:18AM

Once I realized there were dinosaurs on Noah's Ark religion became simple ** -- Baltimore Hokie 06/18/2019 11:07AM

And flies. Re: Mark Twain ** -- TomTurkey 06/18/2019 12:18PM

Eat less, exercise more. It ain’t rocket science. ** -- CPRVHokie 06/18/2019 10:28AM

Yes and no -- EDGEMAN 06/18/2019 10:32AM

Sigh ** -- CPRVHokie 06/18/2019 10:42AM

Well, he's right for alphas like me and wrong for betas like you. Think -- BG Hokie 06/18/2019 10:48AM

Good point ** -- CPRVHokie 06/18/2019 11:02AM

I agree, -- VaTechie 06/18/2019 10:10AM

That is an awfully big industry

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