{"id":58381,"date":"2023-09-14T14:30:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T05:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/sep\/14\/snack-attack-how-the-west-exported-unhealthy-eating-to-africa-and-asia"},"modified":"2023-09-14T14:30:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T05:30:20","slug":"snack-attack-how-the-west-exported-unhealthy-eating-to-africa-and-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58381","title":{"rendered":"Snack attack: how the west exported unhealthy eating to Africa and Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From rickshaw riders in Bangladesh to schoolchildren in Kenya, people in lower-income countries are turning to ultra-processed convenience foods, as experts warn of an inevitable disease toll to follow<\/p>\n<p>A sweet, butter-filled bread roll, neatly wrapped in plastic, has become the snack rickshaw rider Jewel Ahmed reaches for when he needs to eat while stuck in traffic in Bangladesh\u2019s capital, Dhaka.<\/p>\n<p>Bun roti, as the rolls are known, are sold for 10 Bangladesh taka (7p) at the same stalls where the city\u2019s rickshaw riders buy heavily sweetened tea to ward off hunger and tiredness.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/sep\/14\/snack-attack-how-the-west-exported-unhealthy-eating-to-africa-and-asia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From rickshaw riders in Bangladesh to schoolchildren in Kenya, people in lower-income countries are turning to ultra-processed convenience foods, as experts warn of an inevitable disease toll to followA sweet, butter-filled bread roll, neatly wrapped i&#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":[401,327,311,59,566,1086,344,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-bangladesh","category-food","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-kenya","category-nutrition","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58381","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=58381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58382,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58381\/revisions\/58382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}