[ExI] Doritos was obesity

Keith Henson hkeithhenson at gmail.com
Sat Mar 2 13:47:54 UTC 2013


On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 4:00 AM,   "spike" <spike at rainier66.com>> wrote:

>>... On Behalf Of Keith Henson
>>...
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk
> -food.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0
>
>>...Vast research has gone into foods, making them tasty, rewarding,
> addicting even.  Is it a surprise that we eat a lot of food optimized to be
> consumed?  Readers can probably think of lots of ways to test this model.
> Keith
>
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> Keith it shouldn't surprise us that food is evolving.  In the marketplace,
> only the most enticing and most profitable foods survive.  The article you
> offered has at the top a perfect example of evolution of foods, the Dorito.
> I vaguely remember back in the 1960s when Doritos were first showing up, and
> we liked them.  Now if you go to any grocery store, you will find the
> original Doritos with a collection of similar offspring products, many
> flavors of Doritos and all their knockoffs.  Before that, we had Fritos,
> which are still around in their original form but not nearly as successful
> at evolving.
>
> Food is better now than it once was.  It is constantly being improved, in
> terms of marketability and profitability.

And we are surprised by people eating more of this highly engineered
and researched food and getting fat?

Keith



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