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Can junk food really end obesity? That's what journalist David H. Freedman claims in 

. Pushing back against foodies like Mark Bittman and Michael Pollan, who claim that eating "fresh, unprocessed, local, seasonal, real food" is the only way to solve our obesity epidemic, Freedman says that processed foods can play an important role in the food revolution that our country needs:

 to Freedman's piece, claiming "the fact remains that highly processed diets have a history of ruining people's health, and 'real food' diets have the opposite track record."

"After reading the piece, I realized that Freedman is really pining for an old, mostly discarded food trend: the 'low-fat' craze that flourished starting 30 or so years ago," Philpott 

. "Forget for a second that the low-fat-everything moment occurred right during the time frame--the 1980s and '90s--when US obesity rates were surging. The problem here is that there's no real evidence that consuming fat, per se, causes obesity or related health problems."

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