I am very glad to hear this, took me quite the effort to make it clear in the most decent way I could. Extra frustrating is the fact that English is not my native language, so it is often hard to explain this kind if intricate little misunderstandings in another language. Anyway, if I am aptly informed, it seems that healthy eating is currently becoming somewhat of a trend in the US. This looks like a very welcome change of mentality.
If you hadn't have mentioned that you are dutch I would have never known. Spanish is the second most spoken language in the States and I took it for 6 years in school....yet I can only have very shallow conversations in that tongue. Europe is very interesting in its multilingualism.
As for food, I'll keep trying to learn and eat well. Eventually exploring Aryuvedic diet is my next goal.
I am starting to realise how lucky I am when I read things like this.
I grew up with my parents growing their own food and having animals, they have basically organic farmed their whole life (mostly because it was a croft and we did not have the kind of money big farms had) now we live on a farm (owned by an estate but rented) and we follow the same method. I remember my kids trying a fast food place at the airport, they were happy about the toy, but the food was terrible and I had to find somewhere to offer a sandwich afterwards as it did not fill them. I am sure junk food is high in calories but since you feel like you have not ate anything you need more hence the obesity trend. I will stick to home made meals mostly from what I grow rather than prepacked or fast food places. Maybe if I had grown up used to it I might feel differently about it, personally I think it is shite.