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November 10, 2010

Eat a carrot, hurt the economy? Sometimes - Health - Diet and nutrition - msnbc.com

Eat a carrot, hurt the economy? Sometimes - Health - Diet and nutrition - msnbc.com

In Britain, experts estimated that fixing the country's bad eating habits might prevent nearly 70,000 people from prematurely dying of diet-related health problems like heart disease and cancer. It would also theoretically save the health system 20 billion pounds ($32 billion) every year.

In Brazil, however, the rates of illnesses linked to a poor diet are not as high as in the U.K. So Brazilians would get relatively few health benefits while their economy might lose millions.

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