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The Main Street Diet is the Cause of Obesity and Many Health Problems

3/30/2011

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The American diet is a catastrophe. We don’t have a health care crisis. We have a food crisis. 75% of our health care costs are spent on chronic disease linked to the diet…and that is bankrupting us. - Michael Pollan

What is the Main Street Diet? Let me briefly explain. Here's a tour of "my" Main Street.
  1. 13 Fast Food Restaurants
  2. 7 Gas Stations ... upon entering the convenience store, I am confronted with a vast array of junk food.
  3. Now let's do a few errands: PetSmart, OfficeMax, Home Depot, FedEx, and a few other stores  - Upon checkout, each one of these offers an enormous amount of candy and soda.
  4. On "my" Main Street, there are three, yes three, CVS pharmacies (within a mile of each other). Upon entering, I am not sure if I have entered a candy store or a drug store.
Welcome to America's Main Street. 

Dr. William Castelli (former director of the Framingham Heart Study) states: "The American diet is the worst diet you could possibly eat anywhere in the world."

Of course, many people will state: "You don't have to eat the food that is available on Main Street." Yes, this is true. However, we consider Main Street America to be normal. It is not. It has led to a toxic food environment. 

The choice is yours: Continue consuming these foods or make a change. You can learn how to make simple changes by purchasing Feed Your Head or attending one of my presentations.

Dr. David Kessler, former chairman of the FDA and author of The End of Overeating, provides a great explanation.

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The church on my Main Street realizes there's a problem. Sunday's sermon is about the obesity epidemic. Or, maybe they're promoting the new Whole Foods on my Main Street.
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Lisa
4/14/2011 04:57:32 am

Any suggestions on how to ignore these assualts?

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Ken Leebow link
4/14/2011 05:39:01 am

Absolutely. The Main Street Diet consists of foods that taste great* and are incredibly powerful (taste and flavor).

You must replace those foods with equally tasty and flavorful foods that are healthy. Via my book, this website, email support, and my presentations, provide the gory details.


*Once you get off The Main Street Diet, these foods actually taste terrible - salty, sugary, and over-seasoned.

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Sherlock
5/2/2011 02:27:22 am

1. don't patronise them
2. pay at the pump
3. and 4. only buy what you came for

THE END.

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Andy D
11/15/2011 01:00:31 pm

Great article and great comments.

> *Once you get off The Main Street Diet,
> these foods actually taste terrible - salty, sugary, and over-seasoned.


My wife and I strive to avoid any "foods" on the Main Street Diet.

This morning, she made oatmeal for her sister and brother-in-law (they were visiting us for the day). I took one taste of it and thought that she'd accidentally dumped a pound of salt in there.

She asked them what they thought, and they said, "It tastes fine to us."

:P

(I asked her if maybe we could have let them salt their own next time!)

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Ken Leebow link
11/15/2011 11:04:30 pm

Thanks Andy.

That's why I give people this quote: Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding. - Harvey MacKay

Once you move away from "Main Street", foods that used to taste good ... don't anymore. ... Good habits have replaced bad ones.

It takes about 30- 90 days to make it happen.

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snoring cures pro link
9/1/2013 05:40:16 pm

I completely agree with Dr. William Castelli’s statement that the American diet is the worst diet you could possibly eat anywhere in the world. Main Street America is of course not normal! It is obviously a misconception in this regard.

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