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Old 04-16-2009, 03:51 PM  
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It's also a demographic trend. As economies mature from physically-demanding agricultural to semi-demanding industrial to less physically demanding information economies, there might be a DISCONNECT between their calorie intake habits (borne from their previous economic stage) and their calorie requirements for their new economic stage. This might explain why economies that are transitioning to information economies often have higher obesity rates. Of course, the exception to this is Japan.
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