CHEM 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jackie Coogan, The New Yorker, Super Size Me

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 181
• Professor: David Noble Harpp, Ariel Fenster, Joseph A Schwarcz

Document Summary

Lesson 2: perspectives - health, history, science and society. Early silent movie jackie coogan by oliver twist (+repeat recent version that show oliver asking to the master for more food) oatmeal or gruel. Imagine 7 billion persons as 100 (50/50 male/female) there would be: 17 people illiterates, 16 malnourished, 21 overweight, 7 would have university education. Omnivore"s dilemma book by michael pollan eat food. 100 years ago, way back when there weren"t that many problems with health . But there is a 60% increase in life (before in 1900s average 50 years and now it is 80 in the n. a) At that time, the bellevue hospital in n. y. c had rats and in the late 1800s individuals were scavenging the garbage for food. Plumpy nuts is a peanut-based, fat-based, protein-based food that has a long-life time and is given out in countries where children do not have enough to eat by the world health.