Tag: Convenience food

  • Western-Style Diet Makes Mexicans Sick

    In Civil Eats, Judy Bankman writes about the nutritional transition that Mexico has made from a healthy natural foods diet to a “western style” diet of high protein, high sugar and highly processed food. On a visit to southern Mexico in 2008, I was shocked to see Coca-Cola billboards dotting rural highways, and roadside tiendas selling bottles of…