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

According to a new book by الدكتور. ديفيد. كيسلر, former مفوض للولايات المتحدة. الغذاء والدواء, the way Canadians eat isn’t great, but it’s not as bad as it is in the United States.

في “What a U.S. food expert learned at Tim Hortons and Swiss Chalet,” Macleans.ca reports that Kessler’s book, نهاية الإتخام: السيطرة على الشهية النهمة في أمريكا الشمالية (available in Canada at amazon.ca and in the U.S. — without the “North” in the title — في 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.

بعد إجراء أبحاث في كندا, eating at chains like تيم هورتونز, شاليه سويسري, Ùˆ 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.”

لا يزال, he concluded, “احد من أصل أربعة الكنديون الآن يعانون من السمنة المفرطة, 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, ماكليلاند & ستيوارت.

There’s also an interesting profile of Kessler and his work in the واشنطن بوست.

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