How Junk Food Can End Obesity

It's a rather long read but throw it in your read later or, better yet, just stop doing whatever thing you think is important now and go ahead and dive into this article from David Freedman & The Atlantic regarding the controversial topic of Junk Food vs "Wholesome" Food. Junk Food Can End Obesity is a bit scathing in its judgement of chains like Whole Foods or Trader Joe's but the point is legitimate. This little bit is a nice poignant one:

If the most-influential voices in our food culture today get their way, we will achieve a genuine food revolution. Too bad it would be one tailored to the dubious health fantasies of a small, elite minority. And too bad it would largely exclude the obese masses, who would continue to sicken and die early. Despite the best efforts of a small army of wholesome-food heroes, there is no reasonable scenario under which these foods could become cheap and plentiful enough to serve as the core diet for most of the obese population—even in the unlikely case that your typical junk-food eater would be willing and able to break lifelong habits to embrace kale and yellow beets. And many of the dishes glorified by the wholesome-food movement are, in any case, as caloric and obesogenic as anything served in a Burger King.

I am, by no means, an overly healthy individual. However, I do often fall prey to the influence of feeling healthier just by eating from some of the fancier outlets. It's nice to read an exhaustive take on the bigger issue at hand - namely, the somewhat classist divergence between getting truly healthier foods to those that need it. Worth a pondering or two!

via David Sizemore.