(Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series.) Edited by Nancy Krieger. 545 pp. Amityville, N.Y., Baywood, 2005. $70. ISBN 0-89503-294-5.
One of the most striking things an American observes on firstarriving in a developing country is that poor people are sosmall and rich people so large. That physical stature so perfectlymirrors social stature is hardly surprising, given that adequatenutrition is a commodity like any other. Indeed, this patternwas evident in the United States until political and economicdevelopments drove down the price of simple carbohydrates andfat, so that calories became literally cheaper than water. Nowwe increasingly observe the opposite pattern in developed countries,with the poor marked by such physical manifestations of caloric. . . [Full Text of this Article]
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