We have always been addicted to food
We were addicted to food before we were addicted to drugs. The thing is that when we were hunter-gatherers, we didn’t have access to numerous bags of chips and sugary sodas, so we didn’t have health problems related to food addictions and obesity. However, with time, food became available all time and instead of hunting and gathering, we just walked to the refrigerator to get our next dose of high caloric processed food.
The food industry encourage our food addiction
Today’s food industry, makes sure that food is accessible to all of us all the time. The combination of sugar, salts, and fats as well as smells and tastes, hit our brain cells and stimulate a state of perpetual craving. We eat even if we are not hungry to the detriment of our health.
My name is Alain and I am a food addict
I confess to be among the ranks of people addicted to food. To fight my food addiction, I just don’t keep much food in my refrigerator. I only keep the bare minimum. I don’t buy any processed food and I don’t buy any sweets.
The food industry is acting criminally, but we are their willing accomplices
Yes, at the end of the day, we all have to take responsibility for what we put in our mouths, but the food industry does everything in its power to manipulate us and sell us their junk, their additive processed foods. They do scientific experiments with different flavors and textures to manipulate our senses. Then, they hire the best PhD. psychologists and copywriters to create advertisement that makes us desire their addictive foods.
Food companies are selling a legal drug, like marijuana, so they are within their rights to produce and sell their addictive products. But on moral grounds they should realize that they are slowly killing us.
Investors and governments should intervene
Investors should stop investing in corporations that produce highly addictive foods, like Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Kraft, Pepsi, and many others. While people are dying of obesity related diseases, corporation continue enriching themselves.
Governments can help too. By compelling companies to print warnings labels on unhealthy foods as it’s done with cigarettes, and also, by creating a tax on sugary drinks like it has been done in Mexico, they can drastically reduce the amount of processed foods we eat.
Critics say that a sugar tax is a regressive tax which punish the most vulnerable members of our society, but it’s those members of the society who should feel the financial pain when buying foods that are not healthy for them, the rich person simply buys organic foods and carbonated water.