But the government's promotion of the consumption of highly particular items relating to personal health (also, undoubtedly, debt-financed) will take the practice to an entirely new level.
Much of this behavior, which he calls conditioned hyper-eating, is due to brain pathways that are established and reinforced by the regular consumption of highly appealing high-fat, high-sugar, salty foods.
Punditry has it that the rise is because of the enormous increase in consumption by China, and it is a fact that the expansion of its economy and its copper consumption are highly correlated.