Imagine that your breakfast consists of a small bowl of cold porridge, with no “extras”, washed down with a weak cup of tepid tea.You have no lunch.For dinner you get a larger bowl of warm maize porridge with, perhaps, a small portion of stew.That is the daily diet of most of the poorer people in sub-Saharan Africa. No wonder there are so few overweight people there.Yet, there are some who manage to become overweight even in that part of the world.How did they get to be that way?The short answer is prosperity.The chiefs, high ranking government officials and those with prosperous businesses, who can afford a better diet, put on weight.With prosperity comes the ability to purchase a wider variety of foods. It is only natural that a person who has eaten a restricted diet for much of their life should select foods rich in taste when they have the ability to buy such foods.High Taste Often Equals Wide WasteRich in taste often also means high in calories.But it ain’t necessarily so.There are foods with high taste that do not lead to pounds on the waist.However, I digress, there is more to be said about the relationship between prosperity and […]

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