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“I’m lovin’ it”?! Fat chance!!

I was tucking into my after-dinner snack of a hamburger (ok, ok, two hamburgers) when I came across an article from the International Association of Agricultural Economist by University of North Carolina professor Barry Popkin. Yes, yes obesity is growing (even outnumbering the underweight, 1 billion to 800 million), yes, we eat unhealthily. Yawn, what else? Suddenly, my eyes were riveted to an unthinkable thought: Obese people are malnourished? What?!? I thought I had an excess of nutrients. You know, too much fat from too much food... now you’re saying I don’t have enough? Make up your mind! Am I a ‘tubby whale’ or am I a starving sack of lard-n-bones? You can’t possibly dump all the negatives of the world on me & make me both! After much fuming, I got back to the screen to read the possible justifications. Obese people typically survive on a diet of fatty foods like pizzas, burgers and oodles of butter (I guiltily put away the remains of my burger), filling us up with ‘empty calories’ and very few nutrients.

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Editor: Arindam Chaudhuri

Source: IIPM Publication and Business & Economy