| | |  Health & Beauty | September 2009 
The Pleasure of Eating
 Miguel Angel Ferrer - The News
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September 18, 2009
Over the past sixty years in Mexico, diabetes has become the leading cause of death. Millions of people of all ages suffer from it and what is even worse: every year the number of sick grows unstoppably.
Diabetes, clearly, is not a problem exclusive to Mexicans. The scourge is spreading to all nooks of the planet. Perhaps the only people safe from this disease are starving.
Medical science, of course, offers relief for severe cases, but prevention and control of this disease requires kicking a bad habit we have developed over the past 60 years: overeating.
Only six decades ago, mid-twentieth century, the overeating that exists today was unimaginable. So was the universal suffering of diabetes.
In 1950, the world population was 2 billion. Now it is 6 billion. In that time the population has tripled, but in the same period, food production around the world has multiplied by twelve. So today, in the early twenty-first century, there is four times as much food per person than sixty years ago.
It is perfectly reasonable to establish a statistical correlation between the universal food abundance that characterizes the world today and the increase of diabetes worldwide.
Perhaps that is why prevention and treatment of diabetes is so hard. How do you ask generations that only knew of shortages, misery and famine to eat less now that they can eat whatever they want. Why submit to a diet of 2,500 calories a day, when it's possible (and enjoyable) to eat 5,000? Ah, the pleasure of eating!
Visit Miguel Angel Ferrer's website atwww.miguelangelferrer-mentor.com.mx |
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