February 28, 2010
"Diabetes is well on its way to becoming normalized in the West -recognized as a whole new demographic and so a major marketing opportunity. Apparently it is easier, or at least a lot more profitable, to change a disease of civilization into a lifestyle that it is to change the way that civilization eats."

— Pollan, Michael. In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Paperback edition, page 136. Penguin Books.

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February 27, 2010
"Much more so than the human body, capitalism is marvelously adaptive, able to turn the problems it creates into new business opportunities: diet pills, heart bypass operations, insulin pumps, bariatric surgery. But though fast food may be good business for the health care industry, the cost to society -an estimated $250 billion a year in diet-related health care costs and rising rapidly- cannot be sustained indefinitely."

— Pollan, Michael. In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Paperback edition, pages 135-136. Penguin Books.

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