The standard advice to 'shop around the perimeter of the grocery store' to avoid junk food is itself an obstacle course—a parallel to the tactics children use to avoid drug dealers in the Tenderloin.

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All the health experts will tell you shop around the perimeter of the grocery store. That way you can steer your way around all the junk that's in the middle. But how different is that from a strategy that steers children around drug dealers in the tenderloin?

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Why we can't stop eating unhealthy foodsTEDMED
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:57:37 AM

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