Our sickly-sweet obsession with comfort will end up killing us | Brigid Delaney's diary

We in the rich west have taken the baby boomers’ pursuit of the fruits of prosperity to a nauseating and fatal place

The leaves are turning red, and it is peak cruise ship season on the waterways of Canada. In Quebec City, the main attraction, the thing the disgorged passengers all lined up for, was not the museums or churches but a popcorn shop.

You could smell it for miles away, sickly sweet and buttery. At the counter you ordered your popcorn with a topping: chocolate, salted caramel, vanilla syrup, pecan syrup. Giant tubs of chocolate or syrup covered popcorn is for kids, right? But the average age of the people in the queues was 60-plus.

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from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2wPNWGN