FOOD - import/export

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Will McDonald and Coca-Cola kill more people than Malboro?

Here is a nice text that nicely resumes the way of eating and drinking

of a country may come to affect the people living in it:

http://www.britannica.com/bcom/magazine/article/0,5744,348198,00.html?query=pancreas

The worst is that the first thing that the American usually export in a

developing countries are Cigarettes instead of fresh air, Coca Cola instead of water,

Mc Donald instead of food.

It as a devastating effect of which we are only starting to measure the effect...

In some countries there have been pursuits from American Tobacco

company againts the government in place who wanted to limit the

overflowing publicity made for cigarette consumption and put high tax

on cigarette. The reason for those country to want to do that, is that

they know that they won't have the medical structure to respond to the

effect of long term, mass over consumption of cigarettes.

In some countries there have been some pursuits from Coca-Cola and

other soft drink companies against the government in place who wanted

to raise the retail price with taxes, for drinking sugar instead of

just water all the time comes to raise the Type II Diabet in a way

where the medical infrastructure would not be able to respond to the

demand.

In some countries they have been some pursuit from McDonalds, and

other fast food industries, against the government in place who

wanted to limit the obesity of the people in their country, knowing

they would not have the medical infrastructure to take care of them.

Most of the times the companies won against the government of the

country. The lobby is usually such that the rules of those companies

come with other contracts the countries may wish to have with the

United States. i.e like making parts for cars, etc...

It is truly tragic....

A nice text on the subject, inside the United state:

http://www.britannica.com/bcom/magazine/article/0,5744,348198,00.html?query=pancreas

An extract from it:

<< Children are most at risk. At least 25 percent of all Americans now

under age nineteen are overweight or obese. In 1998, Dr. David

Satcher, the new U.S. surgeon general, was moved to declare childhood

obesity to be epidemic. "Today," he told a group of federal

bureaucrats and policymakers, "we see a nation of young people

seriously at risk of starting out obese and dooming themselves to the

difficult task of overcoming a tough illness." >>

Antoine

> The medical industry seems to believe that the pancreas can only

transform> a fixed amount of sugar in the life time of a body. After

which it will> cease to work, thus forming a form of diabet. This

effect of a lot of> diabet in a population is mostly seen in the new

assimilated people to the> American fast food industry. Like the

Inuit here in Canada. An example as> many...>> Antoine><<

Some of the tribes in the southwest such as Navaho, and Hopi

have experienced something similar, with diabetes rates being much

higher than the norm, truly tragic. Mace

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