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A 6 page research paper that discusses the irony that people in the developed countries are eating so much they imperil their health, while millions starve in undeveloped countries. The writer describes proposed solutions relative to developing sustainable food production in the Third world, as well as ethical food practices in the US. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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in human history" (Campbell 222). Over the course of the first decade of the twenty-first century, this paradox has become even more severe, as hunger and malnutrition kills close to
six million children every year, while in the industrialized countries, people sicken from eating too much ("Public Health" 1399). The World Health Organization (WHO) indicates that the problem of overweight/obesity
has reached epidemic proportions worldwide, as over 1 billion adults are overweight, with a minimum of 300 million of these individuals fitting the diagnosis of clinically obese (WHO). Overweight/ obesity
is a major contributing factor to chronic disease and disability; and, ironically, it frequently coexists, particularly in developing countries, with chronic hunger and malnutrition (WHO). As this suggests, there is
clear evidence that Americans, and the developed countries in general, need to change both their relationship with food, while addressing the needs of the developing world in regards to stable
food production and availability. Experts are in consensus that the world is confronted with a serious food crisis. While there are been huge progress made in terms of increased
food production over the course of the twentieth century, this does not change the fact that "hundreds of millions of people" throughout the world are "hungry and malnourished," while in
different part of the globe, "hundreds of millions eat too much, or consume the wrong sorts of food, and it is making them ill," as overweight/obesity leads to cardiovascular disease,
hypertension and an increased incidence of type 2 diabetes (Pretty 46). The problem of overweight/obesity is the inevitable result of a Westernized lifestyle that consists of a sedentary habits,
that is, spending both working and leisure hours sitting down, combined with eating a diet that is high in complex carbohydrates, i.e., high in fat and sugar, but low in
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