HEALTH - Pandora's Lunchbox, Processed Foods

"Is Processed Food a Pandora's Box for the American Diet?" PBS Newshour 4/29/2013

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HARI SREENIVASAN (Newshour):  Human eating habits have changed more in the past century than in the previous 10,000 years.  In the U.S., Americans are consuming double the fat, 3.5 times more sodium, 60 percent more sugar and infinitely more corn and soybeans than in the year 1909.

One culprit, processed food.  About 70 percent of our calories come from them.  It's a topic of a new book by former New York Times business reporter Melanie Warner called "Pandora's Lunchbox:  How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal."

Melanie Warner joins me now.