How the Food Industry Engineers the Need to Eat
&gt; The food companies have marched around the grocery store, adding sweetness, engineering bliss points to products that didn’t used to be sweet.<p>This is why is now <i>really</i> hard to cut refined sugar out of your diet, because they put it in <i>everything</i>.<p>&gt; It is no secret that the rise in obesity in America has something to do with food. But how much?<p>Those first two sentences seriously made me laugh out loud. What are the other possible factors? One might say a more sedentary lifestyle, except I&#x27;ve heard that rates of exercise and outdoor activity have been going up. (I&#x27;ll see if I can dig up a reference.) But maybe more important is that fact that you can sit in a chair all day and not gain weight if you simply control your calorie intake to match you activity level... Which is the only thing that needs to happen regardless of what you do during the day, inside or outside, lazy or active. Maybe that intro was trying not to come out and blame the food industry for the whole thing in the first 10 words, or leave the reader hanging so they don&#x27;t stop there, but the probability that out obesity epidemic isn&#x27;t 100% due to diet is zero.