For some time I've been inserting the thought into conversations that maybe, just maybe, the epidemic of obesity and health problems in the US are related to both how we eat and what we eat - mostly on the run and prepared foods. And that it was scarily amazing that food went from being something nutritious and absolutely necessary to being "the problem" to be dealt with by low fat, low carb, low sugar products fortified with nutriceuticals, because food in its "natural" state wasn't nutritious enough. This happened in the last 25 years or so it seems to me.
A recent article on the SuperMarket Guru website describes the next stage in this process. A process that first took cooking out of the kitchen and now seems poised to take responsibility for eating well away from the individual. Rather than say "no" to prepared foods and eating freshly cooked meals at home (no, it is NOT boring to do this) there may be a movement afoot to medicate the problem away, absolving eaters from the responsibility of what they put in their mouths.
Admittedly it isn't possible for everyone to walk out to their garden and harvest their next meal. However, it certainly wouldn't be a bad thing if it were possible. However it IS possible to act more responsibility in terms of the food we eat and to vote with our purchases whenever possible, showing that we want naturally nutitious, fresh foods. And to lobby to erase food deserts wherever they exist - in other countries or our own. Eating healthy is both a right and a responsibility.
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