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No country for poor (wo)men
Higher food prices likely mean more health problems for low-income folks |
Tom Philpott |
13 May 2008 |
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| I doubt if many people really believe that the recent spike in food prices will, as a New York Times piece put it, 'make organic food more accessible' and force people into healthier eating patterns. (I wrote about this topic in a recent Victual Reality column.) For those who do, I offer this remark from Adam Drewnowski, an epidemiologist from the University of Washington, quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer:The food crisis will make obesity and attendant diabetes even ... |
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