[QAPereo]

I don't doubt that this is all true, but he diet pre-Nestle was hardly superb, Brigadeiro, flan, lots of meat, croquettes, tons of bread... you could do plenty of harm with those traditional foods. What the were not however, was heavily and aggressively marketed, ultra-cheap, and essentially never spoil.

[mixmastamyk]

The traditional meal of beans, rice, meat and veggies, is much better than a lot of countries.

Even the "junk" foods you mention are still considerably better than empty corporate garbage like cheetos and soda pop.

[QAPereo]

I think you'd be surprised on the snack front, but soda is addictive poison, that's true enough. The issue with the traditional diet is that it only worked when food was somewhat scarce. Even without the influx of 1st World crap accelerating the obesity/diabetes issue, those problems would remain.

I'm not denying the role of Coke, Nestle, McDonalds, etc in amplifying an existing problem into a full blown catastrophe however.

[jsemrau]

Especially considering pre-processed foods.

Even though there use pie charts (no pun intended), I liked this visualization.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/what-the-world-eats/

https://fstoppers.com/food/what-week-groceries-looks-around-...