Food from Dumpsters Healthier, Tastier than McDonalds.
Ever since reading Travels with Lisbeth, the memoir by Lars Eighner, an obese college professor who spent three homeless years eating from Dumpsters, Recharger has understood that the poor are fatter. They also have more diabetes, according to a new report from The New York City Coalition Against Hunger. Obesity and diabetes rates are higher in poor neighborhoods because, says the NYCCAH report, instead of fruit and vegetable stands, poor people eat cheap, fried food from fast-food restaurants and bodegas.
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Posted in Food & Fashion, The City on November 15th, 2006 | 
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