Has anyone read "The World is Fat"

Re: Has anyone read "The World is Fat"

• Evil Widgets

  February 2009

  Whats it about?

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• gracendantho26 member

  February 2009

  I meant to add a description...sorry about that! This is the best synopsis I could find

  Synopsis

  Fast Food Nation meets The World Is Flat in this eye-opening look at the obesity epidemic.
  
  Today, the planet's 1.3 billion overweight people by far outnumber the 700 million who are undernourished. This figure would have seemed ludicrous just fifty years ago, when hunger was the world's most pressing nutritional problem.
  
  In The World Is Fat, Barry Popkin argues that the fattening of the human race is not simply about that next cheeseburger; rather, it is a result of an unprecedented collision of human biology with trends in technology, globalization, government policy, and the food industry that are changing how we eat and how we live.
  
  Popkin, whose expertise in both nutrition and economics makes him uniquely qualified to write this book, compares our lifestyles today with those of half a century ago through the stories of five families living in the United States, Mexico, and India. He shows how increasing access to media and exposure to advertising, a powerful food industry, the rise of Wal-Mart like shopping centers, and a dramatic decline in physical activity are clashing with millions of years of human evolution, creating a world of overweight people with debilitating health problems such as diabetes. Ultimately, Popkin contends that widespread obesity is less a result of poor individual dietary choices than about a hi-tech, interconnected world in which governments and multinational corporations have extraordinary power to shape our everyday lives.

   

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• Evil Widgets

  February 2009

  That sounds good...I will have to pick that up.

  The book I am reading now..has the answer to this problem...it follows many of the same ideas...that modern society has lead to the increased ability to get food..and that we are biologically/evolutionarily lead to desire high fat foods to try and stock up for droughts from food...and that we no longer expend our carbohydrate stores (finding food)..so we always crave fat.  Its the Pritikin Weightloss Solutions.

  I will let you know in 5 more pounds..if Pritikin is on to something.   I haven't broken my platuea in 1.5 years...and so far the weightloss has been easy..so we shall see.

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• cmw&tdm member

  February 2009

  Haven't read it, but I liked FF nation.  I'll have to check it out.

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