How junk food is transforming Brazil (video + article)

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How Big Business Got Brazil Hooked on Junk Food

wealthy countries, Western food companies are aggressively expanding in developing nations, contributing to obesity and health problem

"Nestlé’s direct-sales army in Brazil is part of a broader transformation of the food system that is delivering Western-style processed food and sugary drinks to the most isolated pockets of Latin America, Africa and Asia. 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 New York Times examination of corporate records, epidemiological studies and government reports — as well as interviews with scores of nutritionists and health experts around the world — reveals a sea change in the way food is produced, distributed and advertised across much of the globe. The shift, many public health experts say, is contributing to a new epidemic of diabetes and heart disease, chronic illnesses that are fed by soaring rates of obesity in places that struggled with hunger and malnutrition just a generation ago. The new reality is captured by a single, stark fact: Across the world, more people are now obese than underweight. At the same time, scientists say, the growing availability of high-calorie, nutrient-poor foods is generating a new type of malnutrition, one in which a growing number of people are both overweight and undernourished."

Corporations are evil incarnate, we really need to learn to protect our children from their influence and give our children healthy eating habits, fast foods and beverage companies are responsible for hundreds of millions deaths. My doctor was saying that in India/ Pakistan diabetes and coronary disease is going to become an epidemic. I heard they still advertise cigarettes in third world countries.