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What the world eats
Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisi, husband and wife, travelled the world documenting eating habits of people of all classes, in different countries. They photographed people with their habitual meal, and their journey became a photographic book entitled What I eat – Around the World in 80 diets. The two photographers didn’t only take amazing pictures:
Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisi, husband and wife, travelled the world documenting eating habits of people of all classes, in different countries. They photographed people with their habitual meal, and their journey became a photographic book entitled What I eat – Around the World in 80 diets.
The two photographers didn’t only take amazing pictures: they also calculated the different calorie count of each diet, discovering interesting elements. For example, a Canadian vegetarian takes in the same calories amount of a Chinese farmer or a Bangladeshi worker.
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Eating large amounts of fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts and seeds, fish and wholegrains is obviously a healthy habit. But people don’t have such a balanced diet in every part of the world. There are places with a geography, climate and food culture that foster a healthy diet, others that mostly eat ready and processed meals
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