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Welcome to the WBZ book Club. I'm Jordan Rich with
all the attention appropriately focused on obesity and children, the
rise of diabetes, type two and other quote unquote preventable conditions.
The book that really sparked a revolution in how we
think about food is now about thirteen years old. Fast
Food Nation, The Dark Side of the All American Meal.
The author Eric Schlausser, going back to twenty ten, this
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country spent more than one hundred ten billion dollars on
fast processed food, as opposed to six billion in nineteen seventy.
The author refers to the mcdonnellization of the planet. Wherever
America's fast food chains go, waistlines start expanding, he says.
Back in twenty twelve, he wrote, fast food is now
served at restaurants, drive through stadiums, airports, zoos, high schools,
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elementary schools, and universities pretty much everywhere. The major foe
is America's fast food industry. With their mega marketing machines,
they reach the masses and of transformed food production not
only in the US but throughout the world. Fast Food Nation,
The Dark Side of the All American Meal by Eric
Schlasser The book Club w's z Boston's news radio
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