Shocking Photos Expose The Proliferation Of Processed Foods In The Western Diet And Many Countries

This photographic report exposes the proliferation of processed foods in the western diet and in the diets of many developing countries the world over. Is it any wonder that we are seeing increases in diet & lifestyle related diseases?

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The project

These images are from the book ‘Hungry Planet: What the World Eats‘ by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluision.

It’s an inspired idea, to better understand the human diet, explore what culturally diverse families eat for a week.

Their portraits feature pictures of each family with a week’s worth of food purchases. We soon learn that diet is determined by largely uncontrollable forces like poverty, conflict and globalization, which can bring change with startling speed.

Thus, cultures can move, sometimes in a single jump, from traditional diets to the vexed plenty of global food production. People have more to eat and, too often, eat more of nutritionally questionable food. And their health suffers.

Mexico

Britain

North Carolina, USA

Australia

Germany

California, USA 

Italy

Canada

France

Japan

Texas, USA

China

Luxembourg

Poland

KuwaitTurkey

Mongolia

Mali

India

Bhutan

Chad

 Ecuador

Guatemala

Original source: Food Matters