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Article: Food industry takes aim at America's health crisis.(Frontline)
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- Stagnito's New Products Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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The roll of media attention is unrelenting. The obesity crisis is good copy, in all its permutations. In May, Time magazine's cover story was Low-Carb Nation. "Nutritionists are horrified, but they can't stop the force that is reshaping the food industry--and our bodies," its editorial team intoned.
This hyperbole comes in the wake of similar diet and health cover stories, network news specials, a rising volume of medical research targeting connections between food and fat, and incredibly popular diets, such as Atkins and Barry Sears' Zone. Behind the headlines, cash-strapped legislators are looking into how best to help slim down their constituents by taxing ...