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Grocery stores set us up to fail at our diets

Jessadoo
Jessadoo Posts: 7
edited September 2024 in Food and Nutrition
This is a fascinating video by michael pollen on how the supermarkets set us up to fail at our diets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snP40-unO0A&feature=relmfu

Take a look, it's absolutely true! I highly recommend watching this video and learning about the set up of the grocery store and how to avoid the temptations and the junk food isle.

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  • crystal_sapphire
    crystal_sapphire Posts: 1,205 Member
    stay to the outside of the store to get fresh stuff and only go into the aisles for other necessities. coffee, etc
  • VixFit2011
    VixFit2011 Posts: 663 Member
    So do the evening commercials for food.
  • Sigra
    Sigra Posts: 374 Member
    Wal-mart set out to be more healthy a few years back. They told their suppliers that if they didn't make their food more friendly that they would stop carrying them. That's why you find a lot of the Great Value (Wal-mart brand) labels to have lower calories, less fat and less sodium than most other labels in the same isle.

    I'm a little thrown back and surprised (but happy) that when Wal-mart sets out to do something, they DO it.
  • Steph_135
    Steph_135 Posts: 3,280 Member
    I love Michael Pollan. I have to watch this later!
  • calliope_music
    calliope_music Posts: 1,242 Member
    yep, i do my best to go around. i only go into the aisles for cereal and applesauce and stuff...although i'm going to try making my own applesauce soon!
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