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Grocery stores set us up to fail at our diets

Jessadoo
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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.

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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stay to the outside of the store to get fresh stuff and only go into the aisles for other necessities. coffee, etc0
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So do the evening commercials for food.0
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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.0 -
I love Michael Pollan. I have to watch this later!0
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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!0
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