Why Do Americans Eat So Much Junk Food?

Why do Americans eat mostly junk food instead of a salutary meal?

We didn't turn our eating habits overnight. Fantasize what our ancestors would have said about a book titled "In Defense of Food." They would never have believed that food needed defense. Today one of the prominent indicators of the fix Americans are in is how fast Michael Pollan's manifesto sped to the very top of the best-seller list. The book cover tells us - Eat food. Not too much. Mostly Plants.

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"What other animal needs professional help in choosing what it should eat?" Pollan asks, recognizing the absurdity of the need for his own advice. Two separate forces got us here. The first is "nutritionism," the idea fostered by science that food is nothing more than the sum of its nutrients. The second and more pernicious force is the billion food-marketing manufactures that turns food into "food-like substances."

Why Do Americans Eat So Much Junk Food?

Tips from his book: Avoid products made with ingredients you can't read or pronounce. Avoid products production condition claims on the package. Yes, eat plants. But the best of them is: Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't identify as food.

In a poll of Americans who were asked the top 5 reasons why citizen eat so much junk food:

73% said convenience

44% said it's what citizen like to eat

37% said it's because of heavy advertising

24% said it's more affordable

14% said it's because citizen don't know which foods are healthy

A lot of reasons we don't eat right is because of the food manufactures all the time looking ways to make more profit. They come up with fast dinners for families on the go. Convenience is what families have come to expect. We don't have time to actually cook salutary meals for our family. There's not enough time after we get home from work, help kids with school work, do after school activities and maybe pick the house up a little to plan and cook a salutary meal. Sometimes it's junk or nothing. Tip: Slow Cooker meals.

We find time to shop for the excellent clothes, get our hair done, get together with friends, brush our teeth, and stop to buy that coffee from Starbucks but we don't have time to eat healthy. What's wrong with this picture? Food is what makes our body able to self-heal but we don't have time to feed it the one thing it needs, real food.

Shopping for salutary food takes more time and costs more. The processed - boxed - quick meals will be on the town shelves of most grocery stores. This is done on purpose so it's easy to see - grab and go. looking for salutary choices means looking from the very top, down to very lowest shelf, skipping over center. salutary food costs more, at least at first. If you look at poor condition resulting from eating junk food the price for salutary food is very cost effective. Tip: It isn't too hard to make a one skillet meal using whole grain pasta, fresh tomatoes spices and grass fed beef and it will taste good than the boxed Hamburger Helper.

Eating too much and too little:

It's not just about what we eat but also how much, too much or too little is unhealthy. So is when, how and why we eat the food we do. Most citizen think of eating too much and being overweight as being the biggest weight question for Americans. Some citizen are so implicated about the way they look so they starve themselves. Anorexia and bulimia are eating disorders in which the someone views himself/herself as fat. When they do eat it's something they like and not likely to be healthy. Eating too much can be from boredom, stress, uncontrollable cravings etc.

Junk fast food tastes good than salutary food. Kids are growing up eating junk food so they don't know what real food is. American's taste buds wouldn't know real food because it's so rare. If it isn't processed, loaded with sugar, salt, fat and will last longer than our kids because of the chemical preservatives, it has no flavor or doesn't taste right.

Junk food is all the time available. Look at the check out counters at any store, they are loaded with candy bars, bagged snacks and even energy gum! There are snack machines everywhere, even exterior my son's dentist's office. What a obvious sight when you leave the dentist; eat more candy and wash it down with this Coke. We are exposed to junk food everywhere. Stores are playing on our impulse shopping, besides it's just a candy bar, right?

This one is huge...We are bombarded with advertisements from McDonalds, Burger King and Arby's to name a few. This keeps food on our mind and after a while we think, hey that sounds good I'm going to make a McDonalds run for lunch. Our kids see commercials for fruit snacks, cereal, chips, candy, pop-tarts or Oreos and pick these things out when grocery shopping. We are being led to eat what is advertised, the whole purpose of the marketing.

Keys reasons Americans don't eat healthy:

Don't like the taste of salutary food

Can't afford it

Don't have time to cook

Bombardment of Junk Food advertising from Tv, radio, and online

Picky eaters

Don't know what is healthy

Processed - boxed - ready to cook - just add water - freezing dinners are quick and convenient

Family meals are a thing of the past

Lack of knowledge about food:

Americans think they are salutary so don't put opinion into what they eat. They think if they're still alive after all the time eating the food they eat today it can't be all that bad for them. For some, it takes a death of a loved one to make them think about nutrition. It's hard to wonder if good food could have stopped disease. Don't wait until you are faced with disease to think about our biggest self - healing tool, food..

If you still can't eat right I suggest the Pops, a whole food multi-vitamin to help get at least some good cusine and stay alive longer.

Why Do Americans Eat So Much Junk Food?