BLG 700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Junk Food, Tomato Paste, Snack
27 Oct 2016
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The incidence of weight gain and obesity has reached levels never before seen, as has the incidence of diseases such as diabetes, which is closely associated with excessive weight. Dramatic declines in fitness levels among adults aged 20 to 39. Serious chronic diseases such as type ii diabetes are strongly correlated with excess weight and sedentary lifestyle. Food environments, as termed here, are those institutional spheres where food is dis- played for sale and/or consumed. 5. Foodstuffs today are among the world"s most valuable commodities to be bought, trans- ported, and sold, and indeed a very significant proportion of our labour force is in some way involved with these commodity chains. Food is procured from private, for-profit institu- tions, which are now dominated by supermarket chain-store operations that increasingly oper- ate on a global scale. Among youths aged 12 to 18 years, the percentage of total energy intake consumed from fast-food and other restaurants has increased from 6. 5 per cent in.
