Food Science Michael Pollan: Food Addictions and Health

(Tobacco Corporation’s nicotine and Food Corporation’s glucose fructose corn syrup super sugars)



- Michael Pollan author of Food Rules



- Food science, similar to tobacco corporations, designed to make you eat more, linked to high fructose corn syrup, sounds conspiratorial.



- Americans get 20% of their calories from high fructose corn syrup.



- Americans eat 240 lbs of sugar a year.



- With health care reform insurers would have an interest in your heath.



• The root cause of rising health care costs is the U.S. diet.

• The U.S. obesity epidemic



The insurance industry would have an interest in a healthier U.S. population due to the elimination of preexisting conditions.



If you give a powerful industry an interest in an unhealthy population you will end up with an unhealthy population. The same is true if you give a powerful industry an interest in a healthy population.