Over at the World's Fair, David has a post with pictures showing a week's worth of food for families in various countries. It's pretty eye-opening-- the total volume of food (less packaging) for a family of four in the US or England exceeds that eaten by fifteen people in Mali.
Damn, but we're gluttons.
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There's something poignant about the possibility that one of the reasons obese people eat too much is because they are unable to take pleasure in the taste of their food.
Or, "Ive been a baaaddd boy, Abbott"
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ScienceBlogs' Dr. Charles hosts the 100th edition of the venerable weekly medical blog carnival, Grand Rounds, at The Examining Room or Dr. Charles.
From the introduction:
FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) has a baseline minimum diet which they use for things like post-nuclear war planning. It's the minimum to keep an average sedentary person alive and more-or-less functional for a year. It's something like 120 pounds of wheat, 60 pounds of corn, 60 pounds of soybeans, a pound of salt and a handful of vitamin C. The farmer's cut for the wheat, corn and soybeans is around $24.00.
Now think how much you spend on food in a year. That's how far you live above subsistence.