MissToodles
dead peasant
From the NY daily news. I can't stand articles like these implying gluttony is the reason so many are malnourished and starving.
BY JORDAN LITE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
The whole world is getting fat, a new study has concluded.
In fact, fat people now outnumber those who are going hungry,
according to a study presented yesterday at a conference in Australia.
Some 1.3 billion people are too heavy, compared with 800 million who
are undernourished, nutrition expert Barry Popkin of the University
of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has determined.
The transition from a starving world to an obese one has happened
with dramatic speed, the professor said.
"The reality is that globally far more obesity than undernutrition
exists," Popkin said, adding that while hunger was slowly declining,
obesity was rapidly spreading.
The problem is most acute in countries such as China, where an
economic boom is coupled with the unhealthy eating habits and
sedentary behaviors that typify the obesity crisis in the West.
"Once they get enough access to food there is the feeling of making
up for lost time," said Keith Ayoob, a registered dietitian at Albert
Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx.
Consumption of beef, pork and poultry has tripled in China in the
past 12 years, Popkin said.
In addition, nearly all Chinese households include a TV, and 14%
acquired a motor vehicle between 1989 and 1997.
It's a pattern seen elsewhere in Asia, urban Africa and the Middle
East, he told the International Association of Agricultural
Economists in Queensland, Australia.
Originally published on August 16, 2006
BY JORDAN LITE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
The whole world is getting fat, a new study has concluded.
In fact, fat people now outnumber those who are going hungry,
according to a study presented yesterday at a conference in Australia.
Some 1.3 billion people are too heavy, compared with 800 million who
are undernourished, nutrition expert Barry Popkin of the University
of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has determined.
The transition from a starving world to an obese one has happened
with dramatic speed, the professor said.
"The reality is that globally far more obesity than undernutrition
exists," Popkin said, adding that while hunger was slowly declining,
obesity was rapidly spreading.
The problem is most acute in countries such as China, where an
economic boom is coupled with the unhealthy eating habits and
sedentary behaviors that typify the obesity crisis in the West.
"Once they get enough access to food there is the feeling of making
up for lost time," said Keith Ayoob, a registered dietitian at Albert
Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx.
Consumption of beef, pork and poultry has tripled in China in the
past 12 years, Popkin said.
In addition, nearly all Chinese households include a TV, and 14%
acquired a motor vehicle between 1989 and 1997.
It's a pattern seen elsewhere in Asia, urban Africa and the Middle
East, he told the International Association of Agricultural
Economists in Queensland, Australia.
Originally published on August 16, 2006
