Diet: A Horizon Guide Part 1/7

Dr Susan Jebb takes a look through nearly fifty years of amazing BBC archive of mankind's relationship with what we eat, charting the shift from the malnutrition of the past to today's obesity epidemic.

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Education

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• diet
• obesity
• malnutrition
• fat
• slim
• calories
• sugar
• pills
• food

[zeldaofarel]

People are still starving in Europe too, but not because there is not enough food, but because some people are too poor to afford food. In Hungary we still have a problem of children only eating 1 meal a day - the one that they get at school provided by the state.

[mysarita88]

@mynameismeaw underweight isn't any better. it's best to be at a healthy weight for your height and exercise =)

[Yapiej]

@marky77 and some of us are fat & healthy :). 

[ML6083]

sure if ur big its good to accept urself but if ure too overweight change because wen u die early ur hurting ur family and friends who tried to help

[Bdoll2]

@mdndahoodnawaz >> that sounds sooooooo healthy.....

[marky77]

"...the effect this has had on each and every one of us.." um...NO. Some of us are thin and healthy...

[MizzyXTC]

What happened to being in the middle? But I personally rather have my yummy slice of cheesecake once in awhile than drug myself in junk food all the time cuz its just so much easier than taking a minute to cook and take care of myself properly. *sighs* Humans are definitly special creatures lol

[Ligadorra]

=( poor chicks

[zeldaofarel]

@mynameismeaw I can't understand people like that. How can you be happy about eating yourself to an early grave. I'm overweight, but not by that much, only about 5kg.

[Tehm4nm4n]

@mynameismeaw As long as they don't cost me, or risk my life in any way I don't really care. But they don't, which is the problem.