dental degradation – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org Produce less. Distribute it fairly. Create a greener world for all. Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:47:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.greensocialthought.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-ggef_logo_small-1-32x32.png dental degradation – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org 32 32 Big Food Wants You To Believe Obesity is Caused by Lack of Exercise not Junk Food and the Spin Is Working https://www.greensocialthought.org/biodiversity-biodevastation/big-food-wants-you-believe-obesity-caused-lack-exercise-not-junk-food-and-spin-working/ Mon, 17 Sep 2018 21:13:20 +0000 https://gst.riz-om.network/reprint/big-food-wants-you-believe-obesity-caused-lack-exercise-not-junk-food-and-spin-working/ by Martha Rosenberg

There are now more than 700 million obese people worldwide, 108 million of them children, reported the New York Times in 2017. In Brazil, food giant Nestle sends vendors door to door hawking its high-calorie junk food and giving customers a full month to pay for their purchases. Nestle calls the junk food hawkers, who are themselves obese, “micro-entrepreneurs.”  Big Food is increasingly targeting poor countries as “emerging markets” to please Wall Street and shareholders––perhaps because getting people fat and hooked on junk food in rich countries has plateaued.]]> by Martha Rosenberg

There are now more than 700 million obese people worldwide, 108 million of them children, reported the New York Times in 2017. In Brazil, food giant Nestle sends vendors door to door hawking its high-calorie junk food and giving customers a full month to pay for their purchases. Nestle calls the junk food hawkers, who are themselves obese, “micro-entrepreneurs.” 

Big Food is increasingly targeting poor countries as “emerging markets” to please Wall Street and shareholders––perhaps because getting people fat and hooked on junk food in rich countries has plateaued.

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