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Re:40% of U.S. food wasted by jdietrich on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @10:12PM (#4420561)
Eating more than you should is infinitely worse than wasting food. How much food can one person waste in their lifetime? How much healthcare can they consume?

America is in the middle of a diabetes epidemic. Diabetes-related vascular disease is now the number one cause of lower-limb amputation. At current trends, the US will have the highest rate of lower-limb amputation in the world within two decades. That's the issue we should be shocked about.

Re:40% of U.S. food wasted by kamaal on Thursday August 23, 2012 @02:19AM (#4421163)
The whole world is on the verge of a diabetes epidemic. And there is hardly anything stopping it.

The issue is we evolved over several thousands of years to do physical work and suddenly we are all doing none of it.