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Monday, February 27, 2006

Good comment at Brad DeLong's

Here's a question: how much of the preference for unhealthy fast food comes from genetic/evolutionary causes, and how much from advertising? I'm thinking of Coke, for example. Coke actually tastes horrible, but not many people remember their first coke, or their first cigarette, for that matter, if they smoke.
McDonald's? I walk by a McDonald's and it smells like the runoff from a chemical plant to me.
Many people are on such tight schedules that they don't have time (or the discipline) to fix one, two or even three meals to eat away from home. Hence, they have to eat out. After that, pinching the wallet forces them into fast food joints, and advertising convinces them that the horrible product is actually food.

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