In the mid-1990s, Professor Carlos Monteiro, a nutritional public health researcher in Brazil, noticed something alarming: Obesity rates among children in his country were rising rapidly.
To understand why, he and his colleagues at the University of Sao Paulo scrutinised data on the food buying patterns of Brazilian households to see if they had changed in recent years.
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