Nutrition Products – Do They Work?
Posted by PhilifeMar 31
The Nutrition Industry is Big Money
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The nutrition industry is big money as it’s total revenue is above $100 billion dollars per year! This is nothing to sneeze at.
So with all of this money spent on healthy foods, vitamins supplements and the like wouldn’t you expect the population to be getting healthier and leaner?
Unfortunately you can’t purchase ‘weight loss’ and you can’t purchase ‘health’. Both are the result of your lifestyle and there is no amount of supplements and designer foods that will deliver.
In this podcast we’ll talk about the disconnect between nutrition and health products and what they’re doing for your health.
John
10 comments
Comment by Jordan on March 31, 2010 at 6:38 pm
I don’t know about Mini Wheats, but there are foods that have definitely gotten smaller. This is a strange little story, but a few years ago on Conan O’Brien’s show, he had a guest who pulled out an old Cadbury Creme Egg that he had kept in his freezer for years, and he did a side-by-side comparison with a newer one, and the newer one was smaller.
I’m pretty sure that Reese’s PB Cups are smaller. I can’t prove it, but I know it’s true! lol. I guess they’re compensating with the Big Cups. Those are good.
I think they’re shrinking the wrong foods. PB cups weren’t too big, Cadbury eggs weren’t too big, Mini Wheats weren’t too big. If they’re going to make things smaller, they should start with the things that are actually too big, like fast food burgers and Blizzards/ shakes. I admit it, I like Whoppers, even if they’re not real food. lol. I would like a 250-300 calorie Whopper, Oreo Blizzard, etc.
Comment by Philife on March 31, 2010 at 7:48 pm
I just saw some one eating a classic Granola bar…
The Quaker brand..
Those are DEFINITELY smaller.
B
Comment by Adam L on April 1, 2010 at 1:41 am
‘Mini Wheats… Omg you can take over the world with those’ HAHAHAHA I laughed so hard John. This was actually a real sentimental pod cast. More stuff like this. You guys talking = too funny. Good stuff. Good pod cast guys.
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Captain Crunch = crystal meth in my book……
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Comment by Lillea Woodlyns on May 8, 2010 at 10:11 am
Mini Wheats! lol. Kellogg’s makes them, btw.
I didn’t have them until I was an adult. Wow, and you guys might have loved this: I was dating a theatre manager years ago and often there were promotions with food companies giving out free samples to movie patrons. For a few weeks the theatre was giving out free single serving boxes of Mini Wheats to anyone leaving a movie. There were SO many left over that staff took them and I ended up with a few CASES of them! I’d often eat them right from the package, no milk. I didn’t gain weight on them, I factored them into my daily calories. Funny, now I can’t eat gluten or dairy at all unless I want to get really sick, but it’s fun to think of those Mini Wheats. They did taste good.
Great, this post is going to make Kellogg’s happy, isn’t it?
I’m with you, Brad, about the lower echelon fast foods. More like fast non-foods.