To the Editor:
“Lo-Sweet,
Lo-Fat, Lo-Salt” (editorial, March 31) was a start, but the next
step needs to be addressed—why we are eating unhealthy foods in the
first place. Likely culprits are a fast-paced lifestyle that makes
grabbing a cookie easier than cutting up an apple; the higher cost of
healthier foods, a consideration for those on a budget; and fast-food
and other meal-producing companies, taking advantage of these concerns,
that promote meals laden with fat, salt and sweeteners.
If only
food producers could be given incentives to produce healthy foods within
a budget, and we as a society could make the effort to slow down.
Terry Weitzen
Highland Park, N.J., March 31, 2010
Note from KBJ: I have a radical idea: Let people eat whatever they want, and make them internalize the costs. Why should I have to pay for someone's lack of self-control?
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 