Blog 17: Summarizing and Responding to "The End of Overeating."

  

In the article from XXXXL by Elizabeth Kolbert talks about a writing that David A. Kessler, a former commissioner of the food and drug administration wrote called “The End of Overeating” in which David Kessler argues that the processed food is being created to be addicted for consumers. Companies in the food industry using 3 elements that will cause our mouth and brains to get addicted which are Fat, sugar, and salt. Mr. Kessler states that companies are creating new products for consumers to crave on their products. At the same time they are hurting us by getting us sick with food that our body doesn’t know how to break down or digest.

Mr. Kessler is right on his claim, Every day I see new kinds of processed food on shelf on the supermarket suck as new kind of chips with weird combination like BBQ Sauce in chips, garlic and cheese in nachos, water with flavor, Foods that in the past we didn’t though it was possible to make. Now companies are paying top dollar to scientist to create that, in process making us the consumers eat things that our body doesn’t recognize or don’t know how to digest . My girlfriend is a perfect example how the food industry is making people addicted with their new products. She recent has moved from my country Ecuador to America, and she just started to eat those processed food like it was a new drug. I tell her to be easy, but she’s not even listening to me. (I see that she’s getting chubby :-(   ….) She told that the food is so good that it’s like a party in her mouth. I’m trying to break that habit or addiction that she’s having by making her see films that explore the secret and truth about the food industry. She also once told me that in her country she just to eat the same way as in the USA, and that she don’t know why she gaining weight so fast. I explain to her that the food in the USA is way different than in our country and the some so much chemicals that our bodies is not use to digest easily than non processed food.

In that affect processed food are making us sick as well physically and mentally, people are having health issues more now than before. Especially young people, I see that younger people are having sickness that old people commonly have. Like high blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol, all of this in happens to consumers because companies are creating new processed food without thinking about the health of the people buying their product. They only see the profit of it and not the health of the people. As well mentally this new kind of products are making us depress and by doing this it’s making of eat more, just like an illegal drug does to a person. The chemicals on these products are making us crave food like it’s cocaine like Mr. Kessler states on his writing. It’s a shame that the government is not doing anything about it and it’s letting the food industry do whatever it take to make us addicted to their food, and in the process making us suffer.