In Peru people eat American junk food to demonstrate wealth. Fresh fruit from the rainforest is considered garbage poor people food. In America it’s the exact opposite.

The social dimension can easily dominate the health dimension of food consumption.

I'm wondering a lot about the value of food and agricultural products in a consumerist society these days

Just a few days ago, in a TV show about the car industry in France, a car dealer was mocking the rednecks who came to buy new cars despite eating wholefood.

Now this article describes how social media find wholefood can be a cheaper alternative to Ozempic for weight loss, when you are otherwise healthy and don't need it as a prescription.

A nutritionist finds that YES IT IS and his peers have been telling that for decades.

I love that part in particular :

``` Ultimately, a diet that encourages natural production of GLP-1 diet is full of whole foods, including fruit, vegetables, legumes and nuts, says Damman. That people could be discovering this by attempting to mimic the effects of weight-loss drugs is an irony not lost on some nutritional scientists, including Damman.

"The journey has come full-circle," he says. "All roads lead back to eating whole foods – there's no substitute for them." ```

Why do people consume and eat according to their income, instead of caring about their health ? Do they think high income earners are a different bread ?