Daily Calorie Intake

This is a spread I put together for an architecture studio project in my 4th year studio. Two studios worked together to create a book all about farming and how it relates to different aspects of the world as a research study before beginning our next design project.

This spread talks about the disparity in the world in daily calorie intakes. The United States consumes the most calories per day on average at 3770 while Burundi takes in the least average calories a day at 1628.

The word bubble comments on the US spending 250 million dollars a day on obesity related diseases and 109 million dollars on weight loss programs...but only 5.5 million a day on global food aid.

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Slava V. says:

Thank you for releasing this shot under CC license. Just wanted to let you know I've selected to display this image at 'Weight Loss' news page (it's my hobby site), full attribution and link to you is provided. Thank you once again.
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

Patatedouce says:

It would be nicer if you had also included some first world countries that don't stuff their faces - they do exist. Japan for example, at 2084 average calories per day per capita (statistics from late 80's during the economic boom). Probably about the same now, if not less due to the recession.

The injustice shown in your chart may well have some justice to it after all: recent research has linked low calorie intake to longer life expectancy. All those obese Americans will die much sooner. Centenarians who were studied in different parts of the world all have much lower calorie intakes than the average for their own countries.
Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

laurenatclemson says:

Patatedouce

You seem to have missed the point of this image. I wasn't trying to comment at all on what first world countries eat compared to other first world countries. The point was to show the disparity between the two sides. Its an information graphic based on facts and numbers. The numbers point out the huge difference between the hungriest people in the world and the least hungry - which was what I was focusing on.
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