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I was interested in the comment by your guest that we should not criticise food companies.  How can we ignore the vast amount of money that is spent on advertising to persuade us to buy products that may not be healthy choices?  Advertising techniques play to our weaknesses and create demand that would not have been present otherwise.

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I don't know enough about how exactly the GDP is calculated to talk intelligently about its accuracy as a measure of our nation's economic health. I think a more important question is -- what other measures of our nation's overall health should we be looking at? Healthy businesses look at financial, quality, service, people, and growth measures. And doing well in one area at the expense of another is not the key to long term success. What would happen if we had a pay for performance system for our elected officials that was tied to the percentage of their constituents who were proud to be an American? Or felt that they had influence in the decisions made by their government? Or were satisfied with government services that they had accessed? AND a healthy GDP?

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