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Food Security in Mexico 1: It's not just about eating... it's about eating healthy!
Mexico is a privileged country. A huge part of it have such a great weather that you could plant food all the year around. Only a few areas in Mexico get snow and most of them are in high mountain areas where few people live. Yet we have a great monster messing with our food culture: Big companies. And their most feared weapons: junk food and transgenics are really messing with us =/
Mexico is now the 2nd fattest nation around, and I heard we're ranked 1 in kids obesity. The problem is so bad that some people say the subway is more crowed because people is bigger! Yet the problem goes way beyond that. Fat-related diseases are becoming a problem and our health system is definitely not strong enough to deal with them without running out of fund... fast. Diabetes is becoming a big issue here. I find no better way to put this as the Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz put it around 100 years ago: "Poor Mexico! So far away from god and so close to the United States" We have had an invasion of junk food, mostly American. Actually I've heard that Mexico is the biggest per capita consumer of Coca Cola!!! those are a lot of sugars. The sad thing is that we have such a great weather and farming here is way easier than in many other northern countries... *sniff*
The info for this came from:
http://legacy.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080324/news_1n24obese.... - some more info here
http://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Estados_Unidos - Porfirio Diaz' quote (I knew the quote but I didn´t know it was from Porfirio Diaz)
Urban gossip for the 1st ranked in children obesity and in per capita CocaCola consumption
The second weapon: transgenics will come in another post, wait for it!
Mexico is now the 2nd fattest nation around, and I heard we're ranked 1 in kids obesity. The problem is so bad that some people say the subway is more crowed because people is bigger! Yet the problem goes way beyond that. Fat-related diseases are becoming a problem and our health system is definitely not strong enough to deal with them without running out of fund... fast. Diabetes is becoming a big issue here. I find no better way to put this as the Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz put it around 100 years ago: "Poor Mexico! So far away from god and so close to the United States" We have had an invasion of junk food, mostly American. Actually I've heard that Mexico is the biggest per capita consumer of Coca Cola!!! those are a lot of sugars. The sad thing is that we have such a great weather and farming here is way easier than in many other northern countries... *sniff*
The info for this came from:
http://legacy.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080324/news_1n24obese.... - some more info here
http://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Estados_Unidos - Porfirio Diaz' quote (I knew the quote but I didn´t know it was from Porfirio Diaz)
Urban gossip for the 1st ranked in children obesity and in per capita CocaCola consumption
The second weapon: transgenics will come in another post, wait for it!
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