Alarm as corporate giants target developing countries

Alarm as corporate giants target developing countries
24 January 2012

"Alarm as corporate giants target developing countries" is the title of a recent article in The Guardian by Felicity Lewis. Diabetes, obesity and heart disease rates are soaring in developing countries, as multinationals find new ways of selling processed food to the poor.

Leonie Joubert, researcher with the Centre of Criminology, comments in the article on Food Security in South Africa. "Moreover, obesity and malnutrition often occur in the same household, according to Leonie Joubert, a researcher at the University of Cape Town's centre of criminology, and author of a forthcoming book on food security. "It's not a case of having massive starvation on one end of the spectrum, and gluttony on the other. We have this kind of 'hidden hunger', almost pervasive in poorer communities where it's easy to fill the hole in one's belly with low-nutrient, cheap, empty-calorie foods to satisfy one's hunger now, but not meet the body's long-term nutritional needs."

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