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From Dearth to Excess: The Rise of Obesity in an Ultra-Processed Food System

2023-05-22

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More people around the world now have obesity than suffer from starvation thanks to our modern food system. Agriculture was transformed over the 20th century by a variety of technological advancements that relied heavily on fossil fuels. In the United States of America, government policies and economic incentives led to surplus production of cheap inputs to processed food industries that produced a wide variety of...

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Literature Corpus work: e9b2dcde-a389-5bf5-8ae4-2c4f5c696c1b
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202303.0107.v2

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