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A lot of people have quit or are trying to quit smoking and eating all day works kind of like a "food patch." Bosses like the substitution because you're not away from your desk as much. And ex-smokers like it because you don't have to stand outside the office building in 10 degree weather to eat your donut.



Driving While Eating


Driving While Eating (DWE) while safer than Driving While Drinking (or even Driving While on the Cell Phone) is a growing vice. Peak in the windows of parked cars and you'll see mounds of food containers on unused and unusable passenger seats. Some say DWE is the real reason Americans won't take public transportation or carpool; people don't want to give up their mobile dining rooms.



Fast Food


Fast food makes us fat because it confounds our biology. Mankind is wired to be obsessed with food. Until a hundred years ago, we spent most of our time growing or locating it, processing it and storing, preparing it, cleaning up after serving it and worrying about it. Take away all the food associated behaviors except eating and what do you get? People lined up at the vending machine blaming their weight on air conditioning.

























































































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Martha Rosenberg is an award-winning investigative public health reporter who covers the food, drug and gun industries. Her first book, Born With A Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health, is distributed by (more...)
 

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