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By: Lean, Mean, Minimalist » Blog Archive » For the love of beans: simple, healthy (and cancer-free) eating habits

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:16:44 +0000

[...] diet as well. Here are some of my favorites: 7 things – your diet (seven things to avoid), What the world eats (a short article with [...]

By: erin

erin — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:08:25 +0000

that’s what i noticed, too!!!

By: lll9p

lll9p — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:07:49 +0000

Well ,Chinese dont eat like that way.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:05:29 +0000

My first thought was: no wonder American landfills are overflowing!

By: Elisa

Elisa — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:07:59 +0000

I can’t blame he Mexican family for drinking all of that coke, Mexican coke is the best! Mexican sodas in fact are all awesome in general. At least they use real cane sugar in their soda and not fake sweetener. At least their high veggie & fruit diet makes up for it! I wonder how typical these representations are in general. …

By: Minimalism | Mormon Bloggers

Minimalism | Mormon Bloggers — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:41:14 +0000

[...] was reading an article the other day about what the world eats. It showed a picture of what a typical family eats in a week from different countries. In this [...]

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:41:17 +0000

For those who commented on the pre-packaged food in the Chinese family, they live in Beijing. It’s one of the biggest cities in China so of course they have access to prepackaged ‘Western” food. However, most people in China don’t live in big cities. Much is China is rural. However, on vacation in southern China and Hong Kong (I’m Chinese) my dad always told me that fresh fruits and vegetables are really expensive. Also, there’s dietary differences between the North and South (Southern china eats much more rice and fish). In fact, the Japan family’s diet looked more like mine here in America.

By: Kahnrad

Kahnrad — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:01:48 +0000

My first reaction was a verbal, “Oh Lord…” LOL – Thanks for the perspective!

By: Heather

Heather — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:35:07 +0000

I had seen many of these photos before in a Newsweek spread a few years ago. My husband and I still talk about it. In the article I saw, they also had a family from a refuge camp in Chad and it was very sobering to see what little they had. It also listed how much people spent on the food that they had, which was interesting to me, because even the family in Mexico was spending more on food for a week then we were at that time. That surprised me.
I found out a few weeks ago from a friend that Peter Menzel also has a book called “Material World” where 30 statistically average families put out everything that they own. I thought you might be interested in that as well.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:00:40 +0000

If you look at the Mali family. I wouldn’t say there is extremely little food there. Three massive sacks of grains. You can stretch that out into many meals.

What interests me except for the prepackaged (egh) plastic stuff, there is very little meat shown here.