Re: [Marxism] Obesity reduction and its possible consequences: What can [North Americans] learn from Cuba's Special Period?

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

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>On Apr 12, 2008, at 11:49 AM, Richard Fidler wrote:
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>Hooray! At last a positive result from the disintegration of the USSR.

Some experts even contend that the food rationing system during World 
War II offered Britons more nutrition than what they're eating today. 
 From 1939-45, Britons got books of coupons, which they traded in for 
limited amounts of items like flour, milk, eggs, meat and canned fruit.

"Rationing was a huge success because it ensured that if you got your 
allotted amounts, you got a nutritionally reasonable diet," said Dr. 
Colin Waine, chairman of the National Obesity Forum. "I'm not 
advocating a return to rationing, but it was a more balanced diet back then."

full: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19114067/ 


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