Critical Thinking, Policy and Food and Drug Quality

We are in the midst of several epidemics. The source, or at least an enabling factor for some of them, is obesity. Obesity is an epidemic as well as shown in the figure above. But there are other problems with our food, to include:

• Studies link some foods, such as sugar, to cancer. For example, see this US News and World Report. There are many others, although the US National Cancer Institute states: “But with few exceptions, studies of human populations have not yet shown definitively that any dietary component causes or protects against cancer.”