I disagree with your June 22 editorial criticizing the efforts of the Center for Science in the Public Interest to educate people about their diets. Americans are heavier and more likely to suffer from heart disease and arteriosclerosis than their affluent European and Asian counterparts. This is due largely to our diet, glutted with processed food that is saturated with everything bad for us. I know well-educated people who haven’t a clue about how much fat, salt and sugar they consume every day.
Someone has to blow the whistle; it certainly won’t be the food industry. The center’s great achievement has been to zero in on popular items, which gets the news media’s attention, and allow the public to make up its own mind. It’s a valuable corrective.
