Comments on: In one ear… http://fodderfile.com/2010/06/30/in-one-ear/ food for thought, about evidence-based nutrition. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:29:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: G http://fodderfile.com/2010/06/30/in-one-ear/#comment-254 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:25:30 +0000 http://fodderfile.com/?p=849#comment-254 Food marketing drills people in the notion that certain foods are pleasant, a treat, and a way to escape the mundanity of life. Sophisticated people with refined pleasures don’t understand the mentality of someone who must settle for shoddy, coarse pleasures. George Orwell observed in The Road to Wigan Pier that the chattering classes who always chide the poor for wasting their money on vices fail to realise that the condition of poverty requires constant amelioration, compensation, comfort. That’s why there is a market for crystal meth.

When you have a boring job or a family to raise by yourself, and you live in squalid circumstances, half a kilo of chocolate is one of the safer forms of escapism that you have recourse to.

Although I disagree with the latter interviewee’s opinion on what foods are enjoyable, I do agree with her opinion of Gillian McKeith, the presenter of You Are What You Eat. Face like a camel chewing tobacco.

]]> By: A note on the ADA, corporate sponsorship, and PepsiGate | Nutritional Blogma http://fodderfile.com/2010/06/30/in-one-ear/#comment-226 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:31:18 +0000 http://fodderfile.com/?p=849#comment-226 [...] I haven’t yet checked thoroughly to see if there is any relevant research on this, The Fodder File highlights a recent study (1) that should be considered here.  Social factors and preexisting [...]

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