It is a corrosive, which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates dissension.
Not only does seafood fraud cheat consumers and hurt honest seafood businesses, it also puts our health at risk and undermines efforts to eat sustainably.
That, combined with health concerns about obesity, can make people feel bad about their bodies and, in turn, could result in eating strategies that undermine well-being," says psychiatrist Anne E. Becker, director of the Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and president of the Academy for Eating Disorders.
The experienced-based common sense logic of location ("we ate the same thing there without becoming diabetic"), social context ("my family won't change what they eat"), and observed risks of hypoglycemia undermined the acceptance of nutritional information and healthy eating.
These are corrosive emotions that eat the heart out of communities and undermine health and education and employability.
Getting us to change how we eat over and over again tends to undermine the various social structures that surround (and steady) our eating habits: things like the family dinner and taboos on snacking between meals or eating alone.
If you cut the revenues, you undermine the ability to pay dividends, and thus eat away at the worth of the asset.
"Sure it's nice to have willpower and eat less and exercise more," Dr. Callaway said, but many people undermine their good intentions by failing to understand their bodies.
"Rather than stand by silently as increasingly dangerous conditions undermine its business and the food we all eat, General Mills aims to be part of the solution.
But, in the mix, was my succinct, summary judgment about the whole thing: poverty undermines reasonable eating.
Keep in mind that in addition to being a significant source of empty calories, alcohol can undermine your resolve to be sensible about the food you eat.
