I always believed that the most insightful website is Gallup‘s ongoing research on what people think in America and around the world. If you think you know what others think – welcome to some shocking epiphany…
Gallup constantly publishes America’s view on healthy diet and astonishingly the view is unchanging. Most Americans for the last 20 years are unshakable in their conviction that they are eating a very healthy diet. A whopping 85% believe they are eating “very healthy”.
Comparing this to CDC’s statistics on obesity which grew from 15% in 1990s to over 32% in 2008 reveals a shocking insight. We Americans follow the nutrition recommendation of the government, assume it is ‘very healthy’ and increasingly get sick and dead in the process. But who am I to judge? I’m not a doctor or a dietitian. Just a concerned citizen gone Paleo.
By the way, great article on Mark’s Daily Apple from Al Kavadlo on my favorite pet peeve – why is it that most traditional gyms do not have pullup-bars… I will never understand it.
