Taking Care of Our heart, liver, lungs and Kidney: Our Health Matters! –Final Part.
Does our food sometimes comes too easily? In the first part of this blog, I have argued that our health is under attack, partly because of the way in which we live our lives, provide our foods, and our overindulgence, compared to our predecessors. In concluding this blog, I want to have a look at some of the key factors involved in this situation, and on the need for us to take personal and collective responsibility for improving it. The food processors and the fast food chains can argue that they do not force the consumer to eat their unhealthy foods, whether it is unhealthy because of the proportion of some of its contents or because of the portions served and eaten. However, although they might not be breaking any laws in processing and selling their foods the way they do, it remains the fact that their method of manufacturing, marketing and selling it is designed to entice the consumer to come back for more, by 'conditioning' them with ingredients such as salt and ...