Africa's New Obesity Epidemic Fueled by Fast Food
Oct 9, 2017 12:37:23 GMT -8
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Oct 9, 2017 12:37:23 GMT -8
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But KFC’s expansion here comes as obesity and related health problems have been surging. Public health officials see fried chicken, french fries and pizza as spurring and intensifying a global obesity epidemic that has hit hard in Ghana — one of 73 countries where obesity has at least doubled since 1980. In that period, Ghana’s obesity rates have surged more than 650 percent, from less than 2 percent of the population to 13.6 percent, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, an independent research center at the University of Washington.
“People march their sons and daughters to buy KFC and buy pizza and they like to show them what we can afford,” said Matilda Laar, who lectures about family and consumer sciences at the University of Ghana. KFC isn’t just food, she said. “It’s social status.”
Much, much more here:
www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/health/ghana-kfc-obesity.html?mc=aud_dev&mcid=keywee&mccr=domdesk&kwp_0=544095&kwp_4=1951898&kwp_1=818352
But KFC’s expansion here comes as obesity and related health problems have been surging. Public health officials see fried chicken, french fries and pizza as spurring and intensifying a global obesity epidemic that has hit hard in Ghana — one of 73 countries where obesity has at least doubled since 1980. In that period, Ghana’s obesity rates have surged more than 650 percent, from less than 2 percent of the population to 13.6 percent, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, an independent research center at the University of Washington.
“People march their sons and daughters to buy KFC and buy pizza and they like to show them what we can afford,” said Matilda Laar, who lectures about family and consumer sciences at the University of Ghana. KFC isn’t just food, she said. “It’s social status.”
Much, much more here:
www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/health/ghana-kfc-obesity.html?mc=aud_dev&mcid=keywee&mccr=domdesk&kwp_0=544095&kwp_4=1951898&kwp_1=818352
