The Profitable Destruction of Americans' Health

Left unsaid in all the statistics and handwringing is the obvious truth: all this unhealthy junk food is immensely profitable.

The destruction caused by decay is just as catastrophic as the destruction wrought by calamity. The difference is we don't notice the decay until it's too late. When a wood-frame house is knocked down by a hurricane, earthquake or bulldozer, we are stunned and mortified by the destruction. But when termites or dry-rot eat away the framing for years unti…