A Surprise! How the American diet is not

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Enriched and corroded. If you've taken a little bit of dairy, add a little bit of a higher dose of vegetables, fruits and protein, and then piled up so many unnecessary oils, fats and grains as much as possible, you'd be made fun of, but also a reasonably accurate picture of the modern American diet.

On average, Americans eat nearly 2,600 calories a day, almost 500 more than they did 30 years ago, according to the USDA, which uses data on pollution and waste food production estimated per capita consumption.

That grows only enough eyebrow (or three hundred million), but what is most worrying is to increase calorie intake, so much as its configuration. More than 92% uptick in per capita calorie intake since the 1970s has the oils, fats and grains. Thirty years ago, a combination of the two is responsible for about 37% of daily calories; Today, it is even closer to 47% of the diet.

What we should pick up that reality is not entirely clear. Oils, fats and grains, are not inherently bad. In fact, there is good reason to believe that fats and oils are, in fact, just the opposite. And despite the growing of grains, the commentary about the possible health come in all shapes and sizes – some are protein-rich, such as quinoa, while others provide little, if any, nutritional value, like enriched white flour.
But to call a calorie a calorie is wrong-especially if the highly processed or refined, and is quite easy to conjecture about what we are consuming more calories today. It is probably a bit of a coincidence, for example, that the two food groups Americans are eating more and more-added fats and oils, as well as the flour and cereals are the same, which can be found in processed and fast foods.

"It's hard to pinpoint why it has increased," Jeanine Bentley, social science analyst responsible for the USDA's food availability, said in an interview.

"But I have been told about it, processed and fast foods."

Bentley does not blindly, holding his finger to the wind. The USDA's economic research service in 2013, the research appears to confirm his suspicion. Fast food is much more an integral part of the American diet as it was in the 1970s. In 1977 and 1978, fast food accounted for more than 3% of the calories in the American diet; between 2005 and 2008, the proportion of the clouds more than 13 percent. The Americans also use nearly three times the recommended amount of refined grains, and many times more than the recommended amount of frozen and chilled entrees according to the same study. Those calories, which seem to be the wrong kind of ever-expanding amount of calories is widely in the American waistline. Americans aged 20 and older are now almost three times more likely to be obese than was the case 30 years ago-is enough to afford US the unenviable honor of being the most obese big country in the world. The difference is that its more than just a health problem; It is a full-blown economic problem. Since 2008, the medical costs of obesity alone last year was nearly $ 150 billion, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Some of the food supplier in the United States, the annual cost of the epidemic to believe Mark Bittman could now exceed $ 1 trillion.

About The Author

Roberto a. Ferdman is the editor of Wonkblog, a food policy for consumer business and the Latin American economy. He was previously a staff writer is quartz. He is a half Argentine half of Iran, was born in Boston, but grown in Puerto Rico.

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