[tmikaeld]

I think this has much to do with commercial interests.. if there where a higher stigma around the actual cognitive effects of junk-food and sugar it could generate fewer sales.

A fitting Terrance McKenna quote:

We do not think of ourselves as a meat/sugar/alcohol culture. People do not walk around saying "Oh wow, I'm so high on meat, alcohol and sugar!" but they ARE!

[mtberatwork]

My takeaway from Michael Pollan's books was that we are essentially a corn culture, but a "meat/sugar/alcohol culture" works too I suppose.