A slightly more in-depth look at Professor Popkin's study, presented at the International Association of Agricultural Economists, is available here.
The University of Minnesota's Professor Benjamin Senauer compares US dietary habits with those of the Japanese, where obesity rates remain low.
"The average Japanese household spends almost a quarter of its income on food compared to under 14 percent in the U.S."
Cheap, processed foods are blamed by many nutritionists as a prime cause of the West's obesity epidemic.
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