For any junk-food or fast food brand. They have to sell their products to the world. Any and Every business wants to make profit off of their product. In the case of Nestle and Coco-cola and other allied brands they are all in competition with each other of who can sell the most or who can make the most profit. The only thing is what they are selling is not so good for human beings to digest in large quantities and have horrible emotional and physical effects to the body.
“A chemist by training with a doctoral degree in food science, Behnke became Pillsbury’s chief technical officer in 1979 and was instrumental in creating a
long line of hit products, including microwaveable popcorn. He deeply admired Pillsbury but in recent years had grown troubled by pictures of obese
children suffering from diabetes and the earliest signs of hypertension and heart disease.” The people working for the major companies were feeling more and more guilty for being the cause of the problem. They can make the food have addicting chemicals in them making people want it more and more. Causing all of the health issues that they were seeing at the time.
“As he spoke, Mudd clicked through a deck of slides — 114 in all — projected on a large screen behind him. The figures were staggering. More than half of
American adults were now considered overweight, with nearly one-quarter of the adult population — 40 million people — clinically defined as obese.
Among children, the rates had more than doubled since 1980, and the number of kids considered obese had shot past 12 million. (This was still only 1999;
the nation’s obesity rates would climb much higher.) Food manufacturers were now being blamed for the problem from all sides — academia, the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society. The secretary of agriculture, over whom the
industry had long held sway, had recently called obesity a “national epidemic” These statistics are outrageous and to think I wasn’t even born yet at this time. Now we have places like McDonald’s causing more health issues there more fast food chains then ever before and the most they have come up with is yes this bad for you, but its really up to you to know whats bad for you and what is not. They have pulled back the use of salt, sugar and fat. But in today’s world there is bigger problems with having to do with self control. There are little creatures that live inside of us. They cause the feeling of cravings when you have too much salt, sugar or fat often in junk food it creates more and more of these little creatures. Making us hungry and crave for junk food. In the Article it is the solution to hold back on Salt, Sugar, and Fats. But there is no limit on how much a person is allowed to consume. In the article they discuss how they can alter drinks and food to make it the perfect version. But its not that simple. There is more to food eating and drink drinking. People need a healthy diet. I have noticed as time went on now in the 2020s as there are more fast food and UN-healthy food lines coming and going. there are healthy food places like SkinnyFats where you can eat healthy or fat. Greens and Proteins is another healthy place to eat Bowlology is a good example as well as time moves along there are more and more positive and healthy food places being made. They can very well be the future as they get more and more popular. This article is pretty old. But it still holds a lot of current issues in today’s society.
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