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It’s easy to become obese in America. These 7 charts explain why. - Vox
▻https://www.vox.com/2016/8/31/12368246/charts-explain-obesity

“The food environment is a strong predictor of how we eat,” says Scott Kahan, director of the National Center for Weight and Wellness and a faculty member at both Johns Hopkins and George Washington University. “And in America, the unhealthiest foods are the tastiest foods, the cheapest foods, the largest-portion foods, the most available foods, the most fun foods.”

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To make things more complicated, there’s a supply problem. We’re told to eat nutrient-dense foods like broccoli and Brussels sprouts instead of energy-dense foods like soda and french fries, yet there aren’t enough nutrient-dense foods to go around. Researchers have pointed out that if Americans actually followed the US dietary guidelines and started to eat the volume and variety of produce health officials recommend, we wouldn’t have nearly enough to meet consumer demand.

As of 2013, potatoes and tomatoes made up half of the legumes and vegetables available in this country, according to the US Department of Agriculture. And when we do eat tomatoes and potatoes, they’re often accompanied by so much sugar, fat, and salt that we’re propelled to overeat.

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Back to basics for diabetes
▻http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673614609375.pdf?id=iaaJfyeNxgj2N6FNYGVzu

Driving the increase in prevalence of type 2 diabetes is a change in human societies that has altered food production worldwide. Resource-intensive animal husbandry has increased, as has the further refinement of grains. Other changes in society have promoted urbanisation with greater access to highly processed, energy-dense foods and decreased physical activity.

An inevitable consequence of the resulting obesogenic environment is the rapid increase in diabetes, which now affects 382 million people (a worldwide adult prevalence of 8·3%), the majority of whom are in low-income and middle-income countries. The number of individuals affected is predicted to approach 600 million by 2035. #Prevention is fundamental to managing the diabetes crisis.

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The prevention of type 2 diabetes presents a complex challenge that involves both individual actions and external forces. Without a concerted society-wide effort to reduce risk factors and support individuals at risk, the burden of diabetes, health-care costs, and adverse population outcomes will inevitably increase. Like climate change, the rampage of type 2 diabetes challenges a society’s priorities: just how bad do things need to get before effective action is taken, knowing full well that each year’s delay condemns another 10 million people to diabetes?

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