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Related: About this forumA Nasty, Nafta-Related Surprise: Mexicos Soaring Obesity
Few predicted when Mexico joined the free-trade deal that it would transform the country in a way that would saddle millions with diet-related illnesses.
SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico William Ruiz Sánchez spends his days grilling burgers and slathering fried hot dogs with pepperoni and cheese at his familys restaurant. Refrigerators and fire-engine red tables provided by Coca-Cola feature the companys logo in exchange for exclusive sale of its drinks.
Though members of the Ruiz family sometimes eat here, they more often grab dinner at Dominos or McDonalds. For midday snacks, they buy Doritos or Cheetos at Oxxo, a convenience store chain so ubiquitous here that nutritionists and health care advocates mockingly refer to the city as San Cristóbal de las Oxxos.
The familys experience in food service began in the 1960s, when Mr. Ruizs grandmother sold tamales and home-cooked food made with produce from a nearby farm; those same ingredients sustained her boys with vegetable stews, beans, tortillas and eggs. Meat was a luxury.
Since then, the Ruizes have become both consumers and participants in an extraordinary transformation of the countrys food system, one that has saddled them and millions of other Mexicans with diet-related illnesses.
It is a seismic shift that some nutritionists say has an underappreciated cause: free trade.'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/health/obesity-mexico-nafta.html?
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BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)and the people there said that with wealth came bad eating habits, little exercise and Diabetes.
Sounds like the fucking moron's diet (12 Diet Cokes a day and a McDonald's lunch of 2,350 calories). There are 3,600 calories in a pound. Do the math. If Mueller doesn't get him his fat ass will.