Why Are People Fat? My Response to the" Blame Game"

I have been observing and writing about the American food scene for more than 40 years with my wife, a Cornell trained nutritionist. Our conclusion is that there are multiple causes of "overweight." If you want to point to one cause it is the commercial food industry which makes “foods" heavy based on processed ingredients (sugar and flour), sodium and fat and then heavily and irresistibly marketed. Add "body type" (metabolism) and an inactive culture and you have a recipe for failure. Sure there are plenty of people who eat too much but they are not the problem. It is our food system which does not promote fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, vegetable protein and sheer variety. Example: spend the night in a $50 motel and see what they serve for breakfast – mostly carbohydrates and fat. Rarely a fresh fruit or vegetable. (These motel food set ups are from commercial food vendors.) Here is where the food industries’ irresponsibly starts