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How Big Business Got Brazil Hooked on Junk Food[1]. "As their growth slows in the wealthiest countries, multinational food companies like Nestlé, PepsiCo and G
by mncharity 9y ago
How Big Business Got Brazil Hooked on Junk Food[1]. "As their growth slows in the wealthiest countries, multinational food companies like Nestlé, PepsiCo and General Mills have been aggressively expanding their presence in developing nations, unleashing a marketing juggernaut that is upending traditional diets from Brazil to Ghana to India." "a growing number of people are both overweight and undernourished." "The diet is killing us." Nestlé: "We didn’t expect what the impact would be".
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/16/health/brazil-obesity-nestle.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/16/health/brazil... , about: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/17/insider/as-global-obesity-rises-teasing-apart-its-causes-grows-harder.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/17/insider/as-global-obesity...
- grecy 9y agoI have been through countless dirt-street towns from Guatemala to Mali where the local store has a few moldy potatoes, coke and Doritos. All the kids are eating the coke and Doritos as a meal, and of course there is nobody telling them not to, or that they should be brushing their teeth or anything like that. It's a massive, massive disaster.