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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I find that quite simple. If you think that certain restaurants are undermining your health don't go to them.
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I agree. I mostly don't go unless, on rare occasion, my friend suggests going to Subway, KFC, or Wendy's because it happens to be quick and convient. At Wendy's I tried the chili and side salad which I thought was okay in a pinch.
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How else would you "fight back"?
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I don't know. I didn't get a chance to finish the book. The library got it from out of the county so I couldn't renew it. I don't like reading the same book for long periods of time. To me it gets to be a chore. So I only read 5 chapters. In order to finish it, I ordered my own copy, but that will take about a week to 10 days before I get it. I'll let you know how it turns out.
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Summary below by Publishers weekly.
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The summary below seems accurate.
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Publishers Weekly
Simon, a health policy expert and law professor, skewers the food industry for undermining the health of Americans with "nutrient deficient factory made pseudofoods." In lawyerly fashion, she explains the ABCs of the business imperative of "Big Food" (Coca-Cola, Kraft Foods and McDonald's, among many others): make short-term profit without regard to the product's nutritional value or societal effects. Permissible tactics, she says, include false advertising, sham "healthy" food initiatives and co-opting the government, press and academia. Simon also argues that food-industry advocates use front groups to attack critics and spread misinformation about nutritional needs. Simon also chastises her fellow food activists for applauding all "steps in the right direction," no matter how inadequate; the press for its passive publication of scientifically dubious industry statements; and the government for abandoning effective regulation of the food industry. Her case made, Simon offers a host of suggestions and a manual-like set of directions to parents and other food activists on how to work with legislatures, school boards and the media to create a "just food system" that is "sustainable, affordable, accessible, and convenient." (Nov.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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