Food habits are getting bad around the universe , even in countries with traditionally healthy diets . The cause , accord to a new series of corpulency studies , is Western junk nutrient . And since the makers of pronounce junk intellectual nourishment specifically direct child with advertising , the problem is only likely to get worse .
Reports theNew York Times :
An alarming pattern is emerging in Brazil , Vietnam , South Africa , India , Mexico and other formerly miserable countries as they become rich , one study found : Many tike are stunted in meridian from poor nutrition and yet weighty .
In Egypt , one study regain , stunting in bambino increased after 2003 because home poultry mass were culled to hold back H5N1 avian flu .
At the same meter , advertising of balmy drinks , snacks and sugary cereals to children increase on television and in apps and online games ; spending on Coke and Pepsi advertising alone in Arab land spring up to $ 400 million in 2012 from $ 40 million six years earlier .
The study also take down that a third of Egyptian adolescent are fleshy , a statistic that might not be unrelated to the following two facts : in 1994 , there were four McDonald ’s outlets , now there are 56 ; and over the retiring 20 years , Coke pulmonary tuberculosis has tripled in the country .
Read the perfect scientific studies in theLancetandLancet Global Health .
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