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I think this has much to do with commercial interests.. if there where a higher stigma around the actual cognitive effects of junk-food and sugar it could generate fewer sales.

A fitting Terrance McKenna quote:

We do not think of ourselves as a meat/sugar/alcohol culture. People do not walk around saying "Oh wow, I'm so high on meat, alcohol and sugar!" but they ARE!




My takeaway from Michael Pollan's books was that we are essentially a corn culture, but a "meat/sugar/alcohol culture" works too I suppose.




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