Isto está a acontecer nos Açores? Obviamente, estou a referir-me à relação entre hábitos alimentares, doenças e despesas do Serviço Regional de Saúde.

Open Left:: Soda mapped vs. diabetes-Michael Pollan on the deeper story & a proposal for taming corporate power: "Jill Richardson at La Vida Locavore has a diary. 'Soda Consumption vs. Diabetes' with some interesting maps--generated from the government's a new online interactive food atlas--particularly these two:  One of the most pernicious ways in which corporate well-being conflicts with human well-being is clearly visible in these two maps, the larger contours of which--the ways in which corporate food makes us sick

Michael Pollan: Of the money we spend on healthcare, about $2.3 trillion, three-quarters of that goes to treat chronic diseases that are preventable. Now, they're not all food-related, but most of them are. You've got smoking and alcoholism in there, and I don't know where you want to count alcoholism. But, you know, upwards of $500 to $750 billion we are spending to deal with the consequences of this diet. It's remarkable it's not a more central part of the conversation. Actually, it's not remarkable. Nothing related to fundamental solutions can get anywhere near the conversation, because everything related to fundamental solutions is a threat to corporate profits, which makes it a target for corporate power. And corporate power likes nothing better than a pre-emptive strike."