{"id":9000,"date":"2013-06-09T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9000"},"modified":"2013-06-09T10:07:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T14:07:46","slug":"indias-calorie-consumption-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/indias-calorie-consumption-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Calorie Consumption Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/060913_1403_IndiasCalor1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"511\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lily Kuo took a look at a startling Indian statistic:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Despite rapid economic growth, Indians today consume fewer calories today than they did in the 1970s.<\/li>\n<li>Today the average Indian eats just under 2,000 calories a day \u2013 far less than the 2,400 calorie bar for rural poverty.<\/li>\n<li>There are several potential explanations for this \u2013 one is that the quality of water has improved which leads to better calorie absorption and lower overall food intake.<\/li>\n<li>Another is that since fewer people are working in agriculture, having instead moved to less strenuous city jobs, there is a lower need for calories.<\/li>\n<li>Indians may also just be eating more expensive food \u2013 which means that they can buy less of it, resulting in fewer calories.<\/li>\n<li>Rural Indians also seem to prefer to spend their money on rent, healthcare, and education instead of food.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read other explanations, see what the calorie intake graph looks like, and why this might be a government problem over <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/92339\/india-is-surviving-on-less-food-than-it-did-four-decades-ago\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/92339\/india-is-surviving-on-less-food-than-it-did-four-decades-ago\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lily Kuo took a look at a startling Indian statistic: Despite rapid economic growth, Indians today consume fewer calories today than they did in the 1970s. Today the average Indian eats just under 2,000 calories a day \u2013 far less than the 2,400 calorie bar for rural poverty. There are several potential explanations for this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/060913_1403_IndiasCalor1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9000"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9004,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions\/9004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}