The infographic from the National Geographic begins in 1960, and in the TED Talk Bittman explains how around this decade in America fewer homecooked meals were being made by mothers, and meat consumption started to increase drastically. The industry became more into play with more and more foods being sold and marketed in grocery stores. When looking at America at the start of the infographic, you can see that meat made up 13% of America’s diet. As you go along by year, the caloric intake of meat increases from 361 in 1961 to 469 in 2011. One interesting thing to notice is though we do not have the highest intakes in every category, we still rank very high on the scale except when it comes to the “produce” section of the infographic; this is true even as you watch it go year by year. This is different from China, where produce has always been a majority of their diet, with it being at 56% in 2011.The one section that we rank the highest caloric intake is in the “sugar and fats” section. This could be due to the push from industries to get their products out there. In “Called Home” by Barbara Kingsolver, the government changed many of its policies when it comes to farming. One of these guaranteed a supply of cheap corn and soybeans. This lead to an overproduction, which corn can be used cheaply to make addictive products (which in turn are very bad for us) such as high fructose corn syrup and add them to our foods and drinks in order to give or “sneak” us these extra calories without us fully realizing. You can see that all throughout this section on the infographic, the main way we took in sugars and fats were through sugars and sweeteners. This is where all of the added sugars play a role in our diets. Sugars and fats have always been the largest percentage of our diets, but over the years it has become a larger and larger percentage of our diet, increasing from 27% to 39% of our diet. It is also interesting to see how in 1961, on average America ate around 2,882 calories per person. In 2011, we ate around 3,641 calories, this is 759 more calories more in just five decades.