Eating Themselves to Death?

Mark Bittman (Columbia University) opines that most food 'choices' for Americans, are bad ones (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/04/americans-diet-public-health-food). Availability and access to foods, determines a person's diet. In the USA, Bittman says, there has been a focus on producing cheap meat, corn and soya beans. These are prime ingredients for ultraprocessed,'junk' foods. Americans, on average, get 60% of their calories from such ultraprocessed foods. These foods are responsible for most diet-related disease. Bittman notes it's long been recognised that diet-related chronic disease is the number one killer of Americans. In this country, poor diet actually kills more people than Covid19 infections. Only the latter, however, has been classed as a health emergency. For decades, Americans have been advised to 'eat better'. Bittman believes that this can never be a solution, when healthy food is generally unavailable, Things could be greatly improved, if agriculture were encouraged to grow (and sell), healthy options.