[extropy-chat] evolution of food-Pharma VS Nutra

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          Marketing Products Using FDA Health Claims
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          Wed, 18 Aug 2004 07:02:21 -0400 (EDT)
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Marketing Products Using FDA Health Claims

How have companies been marketing their products using health and wellness
claims from the FDA?

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Emlyn wrote:

> I think we'll get more and more tempting food, causing continuing
> problems until we finally get the heavily demanded magic-fix-me-up
> pills that we need to deal with all this crap. I hope so, anyway...
> who says you can't have your cake and eat it too?
>
> --
> Emlyn
>
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>
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:33:26 -0700, Spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Think of the very best cook you have ever known in your
> > life, the meals that masterful chef prepared, and how you
> > loved to devour those delectable viands, which would tempt
> > the palates of connoisseurs from both hemispheres.  To
> > those of more delicate sensibilities, they would add a
> > still more aesthetic charm.
> >
> > Now what if that chef were cooking for you three squares
> > a day, 7/52.  What would happen?
> >
> > Remember those frozen dinners that showed up in the 1970s,
> > how vile they were?  How much better they are today.
> > Like life forms, food is evolving.  Those foods which few
> > people devour soon fall off the radar screen, replaced by
> > robust Krispy Kremes, those toxic toroids of luscious
> > lipoproteins, McDonalds burgers and other such life-threatening
> > delights.  It occurred to me that all the mechanisms that will
> > cause food to evolve quickly have been put in place in the past
> > half century: worldwide distribution networks, franchises,
> > centralized supply sources which can study which foods
> > sell best in which places.  These mechanisms quickly tune up
> > the process, propagating the best food memes and rejecting
> > the only slightly less successful.  The result is that food
> > is becoming ever more tempting, contributing to the alarming
> > increase of human adipose all over the world.  It is analogous
> > to having our favorite chef available more and more often.
> >
> > Extrapolate this trend into the future.  Is there any
> > reason to believe that food is as good as it will ever
> > get?  Why?  If it continues to get ever more irresistible
> > as time goes on, what scenarios can we imagine?  Will flab
> > continue to overtake an ever larger percentage of people?
> > Or will we eventually reverse course and demand less tasty
> > foods?  Will better nutrition education help?  Will more
> > and more people perish of diabetes and weight related
> > heart disease, or will it soon level off?
> >
> > spike
> >
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