Quote Originally Posted by Di bear View Post
I truly believe that by targeting fats, Americans are targeting the wrong element in their diet. Fat is a scapegoat. Same with carbs. It's the rest of the crap that's causing problems.
I agree--there are the crappy fats and carbs (trans fats, white flour, too much sugar) and those have sort of made all fats/carbs look bad to a lot of people, plus as you said all the other garbage that gets added to food in this country. Not to mention other factors like just plain overeating in some cases, lack of physical activity etc. It's a mess, and it's hard to get away from in our society with the way everything is set up. Junk food tends to be cheaper than healthier food, towns are set up so you have to drive pretty much everywhere in a lot of cases, we're all busy and it's tempting to pick up prepackaged food, tight schedules make it hard for some people to find the time/energy to exercise, some areas aren't safe enough for people to be comfortable exercising outdoors, farming practices for the most part are unnatural and unsanitary, and I could probably go on. I wish I (or anyone else for that matter) knew how we could fix this.