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Thursday, June 19, 2008

The Nutrition Transition

Consider this counter-intuitive statistic...something is wrong with our priorities:

Globally speaking, people consume more soft drinks and packaged foods as they grow more affluent; home-cooked meals of fresh ingredients are the mainstay of rural, less affluent people. This link between economic success and nutritional failure has become so wide-spread, it has a name: the nutrition transition. --Barbara Kingsolver, "Animal, Vegetable Miracle"

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