وَمَا يَسْتَوِي الْأَحْيَاءُ وَلَا الْأَمْوَاتُ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُسْمِعُ مَن يَشَاءُ ۖ وَمَا أَنتَ بِمُسْمِعٍ مَّن فِي الْقُبُورِ

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New World Syndrome:
The increase in non-communicable diseases like obesity, hypertension, and diabetes seen among peoples in newly developing countries.

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The World Health Organization recently described overeating as the "fastest growing form of malnourishment."

For the first time in history the number of people worldwide who are both overweight and malnourished, estimated at 1.1 billion, equals the number who are underweight and malnourished. Obesity rates in China have quadrupled in the past decade, and obesity in the urban middle class in India is epidemic. In Colombia 41 percent of adults are overweight. The global spread of diet-linked disease presents one of the greatest medical challenges of the twenty-first century.

- Ellen Ruppel Shell

هالحجي بـ 2001 تقريبًا.

Also, it is way deeper than a mere "medical challenge."

In Micronesia—as in much of the world, particularly the developing world—it is more profitable for authorities to encourage overconsumption than to discourage it. The Worldwatch Institute reported last year that approximately four of the five McDonald's restaurants that opened every day in 1997 were outside the United States. In its 1998 annual report the Coca-Cola Company described Africa as "a land of opportunity."

- Ellen Ruppel Shell

Bread and circuses 🍻

We're not just living like the west, we're also dying like them: dying of obesity, cancer, and heart disease.

They say that the Egyptian slaves who built the pyramids were fed on garlic. Today, we're fed on pizza and burgers.

أشأَمُ مِنْ عِطرِ مَنشَم (مَثَل عربي)

قَالَ الْجَوْهَرِيُّ: مَنْشِمُ امرأَةٌ كَانَتْ بِمَكَّةَ عَطَّارَةٌ، وَكَانَتْ خُزاعةُ وجُرْهُم إِذَا أَرادوا الْقِتَالَ تطيَّبوا مِنْ طِيبِهَا، وَكَانُوا إِذَا فَعَلُوا ذَلِكَ كَثُرَ القَتْلى فِيمَا بَيْنَهُمْ فَكَانَ يُقَالُ: أَشْأَمُ مِنْ عِطْرِ مَنْشِم

وَقِيلَ: مَنْشِمُ امرأَةٌ كَانَتْ صَنَعَتْ طِيبًا تُطَيِّب بِهِ زَوْجَهَا، ثُمَّ إِنَّهَا صَادَفَتْ رَجُلًا وَطَيَّبَتْهُ بطيبِها، فلقِيَه زوجُها فشمَّ ريحَ طِيبِهَا عَلَيْهِ فقتَله

وقالَ زُهير في معلّقتِه:
تَدارَكتُما عَبسًا وذبيانَ بعدَ ما
تَفانَوا ودَقّوا بينَهُم عِطرَ مَنشَمِ

وأكو مقولة: «دقَّ اللهُ بَينكُما عِطرَ مَنشَمِ»

معناها تقريبًا مثل: "إن شاء الله ينهجم بيتكم،" أو "تنزرع بينكم العداوة إن شاء الله"

Is a paradoxical situation in which a country underperforms economically, despite being home to valuable natural resources.

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