How To Lose Weight?
The consumption of processed food and the increasing dependence on processed food has changed lifestyles. It has also contributed significantly to obesity. The food industry is powerful enough to determine what food is produced, how it is produced and processed. The industry also influences what are consumed and how it is consumed. It influences the whole agricultural sector including government policies. Concerns for health are hardly a priority in this profit driven industry. There is more profit in selling processed food than fresh food. The shelf-life of processed food is also more. The consumer has to choose between short shelf-life costlier nutritionally richer fresh food and the longer shelf-life cheaper nutritionally poorer processed food. Processed food is also easier to purchase, store, and prepare. It also makes life easy for the harried and rushed for time urbanite.
