From MB: "The only thing about our Western diet is that women have such a fixation on the avoidance of being fat."
Seriously? That's the only thing?
Either that was an attempt at humor or you are seriously misinformed.
The tragedy is that if the basic principles of maintaining a health weight were more widely promulgated, women and men would fixate less on fat avoidance. They wouldn't need to. They would be there already.
The litany of issues with our Western diet is made possible because of :
-lack of education about what foods are good fuel for your particular body
-the absolute destruction of the family farm
- the concomitant rise in packaged food and weird drinks sanctioned by our wonderful FDA(see aspartame's rush through approval process)and their can do attitude for the food multinational giants.
Certainly not an exhaustive list but good "food" for thought.
