{"id":56674,"date":"2023-07-14T23:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jul\/14\/how-food-companies-sweetened-the-world-and-increased-the-risk-of-disease-acc"},"modified":"2023-07-14T23:00:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T14:00:03","slug":"how-food-companies-sweetened-the-world-and-increased-the-risk-of-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56674","title":{"rendered":"How food companies \u2018sweetened the world\u2019 \u2013 and increased the risk of disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hard sell of ultra-processed foods in developing countries as being \u2018good for you\u2019 gives children a taste for sugar and salt that could have lasting effects on their health<\/p>\n<p>The bright red bottle of Sting, an energy drink, catches Sunita Devi\u2019s eye when she finds her local shopkeeper has run out of the biscuits she hoped to buy to fuel her son through his homework. She cannot read the English label, but 10-year-old Ajit says it sounds healthy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStimulates mind, energises body\u201d the bottle proclaims. It\u2019s the type of marketing that helps shop owner Vasu Gupta sell energy drinks \u2013 mostly to families who have migrated from the countryside to a slum in Govindpuri in the Indian capital, Delhi.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jul\/14\/how-food-companies-sweetened-the-world-and-increased-the-risk-of-disease-acc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hard sell of ultra-processed foods in developing countries as being \u2018good for you\u2019 gives children a taste for sugar and salt that could have lasting effects on their healthThe bright red bottle of Sting, an energy drink, catches Sunita Devi\u2019s eye w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":942,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[245,311,383,59,62,347,61,345,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-food","category-food-drink-industry","category-global-development","category-india","category-nutrition-and-development","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sugar","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56675,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56674\/revisions\/56675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}