HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: High Fructose Corn Syrup, Trans Fat, Medicalization
26 Mar 2017
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Lecture 14 obesity and hunger - albritton. Between obesity and hunger: the capitalist food industry by robert albritton. Of globe eats too much, of globe eats too little. The most important factor in human health is diet. Cheap food to capitalism is important because it allows wages to be lower (and thus profits higher: leaves workers with more disposable income. Post ww2, large farms became increasingly subservient to the gigantic corporations that supplied the inputs and outputs. In the us, the largest 10% got 72% of the subsidies and 60% of farms got no subsidy: large farms today depend on cheap oil and government subsidies capitalism the strongest force shaping the global food system. The corporations are the far greater sovereign force: ex. Americans consume 31 teaspoons of added sugar a day. Obesity is a risk factor for chronic disease but is mostly connected to diabetes. Between 1997 and 2004, type 2 diabetes increased by 41% in the us.
