Big Food vs. Big Insurance

Why do we (Americans) find it so hard to accept the fact that what we are eating and feeding our children is making us sick?

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, three-quarters of health care spending now goes to treat “preventable chronic diseases.” Not all of these diseases are linked to diet — there’s smoking, for instance — but many, if not most, of them are. The American way of eating has become the elephant in the room in the debate over health care. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/opinion/10pollan.html

Op-Ed Contributor
Big Food vs. Big Insurance
By MICHAEL POLLAN
Published: September 10, 2009