WAPO: Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco

A new study suggests that tobacco companies, who were skilled at marketing cigarettes, used similar strategies to hook people on processed foods.

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https://wapo.st/3EMfAJw

Study cited
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/add.16332

And some people still choose unhealthy foods as well as other life choices that aren’t exactly healthy for them. There are plenty of options besides “unhealthy” foods. At some point people need to actually do a bit of research.

I remember the food triangle as a child. I don’t recall Oreos being on it.

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