"I Worked in a Natural Foods Store for About 5 Years"

Pulled from the comments of the NBA Players Ditch the FDA Pyramid and Go Paleo-Primal post . Rick Miller writes:

Having worked in a natural foods store for about 5 years, I have developed the ability to pretty much tell what kind of diet folks are following by just looking at them. I also had the opportunity to get to know many of the "regular" customers, and I can tell you from experience that our healthiest customers were paleo. The diabetics who were sent to the store by their doctor for some help with their diet, while generally jovial, were also quite panic stricken. The vegetarians were somewhat happy, but a bit "holier than thou". The "gluten-free" folks were rarely people with celiac disease, meaning gluten would make them quite sick. Rather, typically they were just trendy. However, the vegans stood out the most- they were unhappy, pale, and seemed to have a "haze" about them, like they were in some sort of a mental fog. These are absolutely broad generalizations, but pretty darn true to my experiences. As a side note, the fattest folks were always buying "low-fat" items, while the healthiest were seeking "whole-milk" and the most unaltered sorts of things!

On a libertarian note, it is obvious that the primary beneficiaries of the government farm subsidy (grain growers) have their segment of the pyramid right on bottom- indicating the government wishes consumers to eat a large portion of their daily diet in grains. The US food system is truly built on subsidized grains, and the results (more overweight people) are quite predictable. This is a strange form of redistribution that amounts to taking tax dollars (stolen loot) and money-laundering those dollars through the agricultural system, resulting in fat wallets for a select few big ag companies, and fat asses for the majority of their consumers who are driven to their products via unrealistically cheap prices!