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...detrimental results of fast food's rise in overseas markets. As the industry pushes its high-fat, high-cholesterol, meat-based foods, rates of diabetes, heart disease and stroke are skyrocketing. Obesity rates have tripled over the past 20 years in countries that have adopted the American diet, according to a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine in January 2007. Rates of diabetes are expected to reach pandemic levels by 2030. Given all that Americans have learned about how diet affects health, shouldn't we export that knowledge rather than buckets of fried chicken? I'd love...
...were to limit my food choices to locally produced items, my diet some months would be based on dairy, eggs, chicken and frozen vegetables - not the most healthful or interesting food plan. Farm-to-table advocates might win more converts by focusing less on chastising consumers for purchasing convenient and economical foods and more on making those choices available to all. Sam Manbeck, York, Pennsylvania...
...Avoiding ethiopian coffee, Italian olive oil and Indian mangoes is a recipe for both a bland and boring diet and harmful, protectionist trade policies. There is no reason we can't eat fresh, local carrots that are seasoned with saffron from across the world. In doing so we blend cultures the way only good eating can. Susan R. Holmberg, New York City...
...were to limit my food choices to locally produced items, my diet some months would be based on dairy, eggs, chicken and frozen vegetables?not the most healthful or interesting food plan. And I am keenly aware of the premium I pay at farm stands. Farm-to-table advocates might win more converts by focusing less on chastising consumers for purchasing convenient and economical foods and more on making those choices available to all. Sam Manbeck, YORK...
...sympathize with Stein's tongue-in-cheek intolerance of locavore fundamentalism. Avoiding Ethiopian coffee, Italian olive oil and Indian mangoes is a recipe for both a bland and boring diet and harmful, protectionist trade policies. There is no reason we can't eat fresh, local carrots that are seasoned with saffron from across the world. In doing so we blend cultures the way only good eating can. Susan R. Holmberg, NEW YORK CITY...