Sunday, March 28, 2010

Child Obesity in America: "Mommy, Mommy! Why Am I Fat?"

by David Kendall from Global Research. An excellent article that makes the right connections between poverty and obesity, and then offers the appropriate solutions.
While American society has become abundantly more affluent over the past quarter century, most of that gain has been concentrated amongst a shrinking upper class minority of people whose incomes are derived primarily from ownership, not from wages. In response, the FDA has prescribed additives like monosodium glutamate and high fructose corn syrup for American workers that are in debt up to their eyeballs because they haven't had the purchasing power to pay for healthy food since the 1960s.