Dr. Mark's Minute - Secret Food Industry Practices Dealing Death

[Encouraging] Are there secret tactics that the food industry uses to spike our food with addictive things that they won't tell us about? Well, in 2005, the Institute of Medicine published a report on food marketing to kids and youth, threat or opportunity. They reviewed more than 123 peer-reviewed studies addressing the link between food marketing and children's preferences, their requests, their consumption, their weight gain, and diabetes. The Institute of Medicine, however, was not permitted to review any internal research done by the food industry. Instead, the organization performed research based on asking kids and preschoolers, and they looked at the sort of psychological drivers of food choices. The resulting report from the Institute of Medicine documents this comprehensive and deliberate effort made by the food industry to find ways to exploit the suggestibility of kids. Remember, they're not selling just Nintendos, but substances that are proven to be addictive, to cause obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. And it's illegal in most other developed countries. Why is it legal in America to market these things to kids?