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Two separate people forwarded me a recent article appearing in The Consumerist: New Survey Says Less Than 20% Of Consumers Trust Food Supply. Yes. Ridiculous.
The link also contains a quick video highlighting the problem with our food supply chain, which includes the incredible fact:
“60 years ago, we could create a single calorie of food [...]
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Yet the land devoted to it has only doubled.
Read this interesting article, Organic Statistics, from La Vida Locavore.
Also interesting to note that two foods that had the highest premium charged (as compared to their non-organic counterparts) were spinach and lettuce. Think that had anything to do with the e coli scare we had in 2006?
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A recent post from the New York Times shows this graph, plotting the percentage of people with a BMI >= 30 versus the amount of time spent eating (per day) in various countries:
In the comments, several people question the validity of any conclusions drawn from the data, as it has a low correlation of only [...]
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I spent some time playing around on google trends recently, and in addition to the disturbing upward trend of people googling the term diahhrea (it has doubled since Google started keeping track - doesn’t that say something about our eating habits?), I discovered that the graph for “food poisoning” is actually quite interesting:
Notice that every [...]
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Time for another stats post! Last week I overheard that people tend to get sicker around the holidays because they eat less healthily. Seems like something that we can prove with statistics, right? Here we go.
Below is a graph of people googling “eating healthy”, courtesy of google trends:
(click to explore the stats)
As you can see, [...]
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