Is the typical American diet — heavy in fat, ç³–, and salt — the same on the Canadian side of the border?

According to a new book by 博士. 大卫. 凯斯勒, former 在中美专员. 食品和药物管理局, the way Canadians eat isn’t great, but it’s not as bad as it is in the United States.

在 “What a U.S. food expert learned at Tim Hortons and Swiss Chalet,” Macleans.ca reports that Kessler’s book, 暴饮暴食的终结: 以永不满足北美食欲的控制 (available in Canada at amazon.ca and in the U.S. — without the “North” in the title — 在 amazon.com):

…discusses how the food industry hijacked our brains with three substances humans find as seductive as sex—salt, sugar and fat—and how the desire for them has overthrown thousands of years of conditioning to create an unprecedented culture of overeating.

做研究之后加拿大, eating at chains like çš„Tim Hortons, 瑞士木屋, å’Œ Jack Astor’s, Kessler reported that “portion sizes were a trifle smaller than is typical in the United States and there was a homemade quality to most of the food.”

仍, he concluded, “四分之一的加拿大人现在肥胖, compared to one in three in the U.S. One-third of Canadians who were classified as normal weight a decade ago are now overweight.”

You can read more about Kessler’s north-of-the-border dining experiences at the website of his Canadian publisher, 麦克莱兰 & 斯图尔特.

There’s also an interesting profile of Kessler and his work in the “华盛顿邮报”.

图片©卡罗琳乙. 海勒