Posted on 12/12/2017 4:40:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
Few predicted when Mexico joined the free-trade deal that it would transform the country in a way that would saddle millions with diet-related illnesses.
William Ruiz Sánchez spends his days grilling burgers and slathering fried hot dogs with pepperoni and cheese at his family’s restaurant. Refrigerators and fire-engine red tables provided by Coca-Cola feature the company’s logo in exchange for exclusive sale of its drinks.
Though members of the Ruiz family sometimes eat here, they more often grab dinner at Domino’s or McDonald’s. For midday snacks, they buy Doritos or Cheetos at Oxxo, a convenience store chain so ubiquitous here that nutritionists and health care advocates mockingly refer to the city as San Cristóbal de las Oxxos.
The family’s experience in food service began in the 1960s, when Mr. Ruiz’s grandmother sold tamales and home-cooked food made with produce from a nearby farm; those same ingredients sustained her boys with vegetable stews, beans, tortillas and eggs. Meat was a luxury.
Since then, the Ruizes have become both consumers and participants in an extraordinary transformation of the country’s food system, one that has saddled them and millions of other Mexicans with diet-related illnesses.
It is a seismic shift that some nutritionists say has an underappreciated cause: free trade.
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They can easily fix this problem by establishing a citizen exchange program with venezuela. Mexico gets thinner, and venezuela can extend its food supply-chain.
This is great! Pretty soon, they’ll be too fat to climb over the wall and too big to fit through those tunnels. Mexico problem solved.
I just got back after 8 weeks in the peninsula. EVERYTHING was fast food, chips, bags of sweets and candy in the small stores. Sure, not supermarkets. But those were little better. Typical body was short and round. Male and female, old and young.
tah-dah!
My ex-wife was Mexican and I can tell you from experience they have horrible eating habits. Salt and sugar is the main ingredient to everything. In 5 years my ex gained 50 lbs. But somehow it was my fault. Funny how it always works that way.
I respectfully ask about your ex wife’s opinion of exercise to combat the intake of salt and sugar.
Ahem...my lacrimal glands fail to engage at this. Quick, somebody post Boohoo Girl. Like she gives a flying fig either...
In fairness, your wife isn’t all Mexicans.
I don’t know about other areas but where I live if you want to see obesely fat Mexicans just go to Walmart.
They are there even if you don’t want to see them!
Lot of hair on that chest
Well, of course, everyone knows the real cause: Trump’s fault.
High fructose corn syrup.
Sounds like they are catching up with the us
nothing like progress, but is it really progress.
Hydrogynated vegetable shortening instead of true (not hydrogynated) lard.
Now we must await the soaring diabetes statistics and all the terrible spinoff diseases.
Free trade. has played havoc with the American
industry, the Mexican farmers can raise crops
for a fraction of what we can then bring it up
here and sell it for a little less than we do.
Make big profits the middle men making the most
leaving our farmers to sell to housing developers
or. Or going broke.
The forests burning up innstead of being cultivated.
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