America Is Shrinking Because We Eat Too Much Crap


	America Is Shrinking Because We Eat Too Much Crap

zasel

6-22-2007 4:10 AM

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food, nutition, health

zasel says:

Paul Krugman's commentary should raise a red flag as to the way we are ignoring the health and wellbeing of our children by allowing them to eat fast food crap while we are overly busy working on our jobs or other endeavours. For a nation that claims to be "family first" in its priorities, we aren't really showing it in the way we ignore the nutritional needs of our offspring. I urge my followers and anyone else reading this clip to read the entire piece.

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</NYT_BYLINE><DIV class="byline">By <A title="More Articles by Paul Krugman" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/paulkrugman/index.html?inline=nyt-per">PAUL KRUGMAN</A></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://select.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/opinion/15krugman.html?th&emc=th"><P>Europeans used to look up to us; now, many of them look down on us instead.</P><P>No, I’m not talking metaphorically about our loss of moral authority in the wake of Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. I’m literally talking about feet and inches.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://select.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/opinion/15krugman.html?th&emc=th">This is not a trivial matter.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://select.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/opinion/15krugman.html?th&emc=th">“height is indicative of how well the human organism thrives in its socioeconomic environment.”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://select.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/opinion/15krugman.html?th&emc=th">So what is America’s modern height lag telling us?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://select.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/opinion/15krugman.html?th&emc=th"><P>We seem to be left with two main possible explanations of the height gap. </P><P>One is that America really has turned into “Fast Food Nation.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://select.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/opinion/15krugman.html?th&emc=th">“U.S. children,” write Mr. Komlos and Mr. Lauderdale, “consume more meals prepared outside the home, more fast food rich in fat, high in energy density and low in essential micronutrients, than do European children.” </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://select.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/opinion/15krugman.html?th&emc=th">A broader explanation would be that contemporary America is a society that, in a variety of ways, doesn’t take very good care of its children.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1D063A28-A761-423C-B97A-72FE9EED26E5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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