BANGLADESH: SHAHNAZ BEGUM MICROLOAN MILKER CANADA: COCO SIMONE FINKEN GREEN TEEN Shahnaz rinses tiny fish for dinner at the village well. Coco blows out sixteen birthday candles on a homemade carrot cake baked by her mother and sister. She cooks with her renters and neighbors in a small lean-to next to her tin-clad house, which has a TV but no refrigerator. Coco and her family in their passive-solar, straw-bale house. Her cows eat a pile of water hyacinths gathered by her son from a The Finkens live a block and a half east of Lac Deschenes, a wide pond beyond the haystack in the main photo. section of the Ottawa River. One Day’s Food One Day’s Food IN DECEMBER IN OCTOBER BREAKFAST Sweet biscuits (cookies), 0.6 oz • Black tea, 3.5 fl oz; BREAKFAST French bread, 1.8 oz • Strawberries, 2.6 oz • So Nice with sugar, 2 tsp soy milk, original, 7.5 fl oz LUNCH Amaranth leaves, stir-fried with small shrimp, onion, LUNCH Veggie Wrap: Old El Paso flour tortilla, salsa flavored, garlic, ginger, and hot chilies, 6 oz • Cauliflower, stir-fried with 2.5 oz; feta cheese, 1.8 oz; green bell pepper, 1.1 oz; lettuce, onion, green chilies, ground chilies, and a small amount of beef 0.4 oz; butter, 0.5 tsp • Apple, 5.6 oz • Carrots, 1.8 oz for flavoring, 6.3 oz • Fresh vegetable salad of tomato, cucumber, and chilies, 3.4 oz; with lemon juice, 1 tbsp • White rice, 12.8 oz DINNER Jyoti matar paneer (peas and Indian-style cheese), 6.1 oz • White rice, 6.6 oz DINNER Khailsha (giant dwarf gourami, a freshwater fish) with snow peas, potato, and tomato, eaten with the fish broth, 13.8 oz SNACKS AND OTHER Homemade zucchini bread with • Dal bhorta (mashed lentils cooked with cilantro and oil), 5.9 oz • chocolate chips, 5.9 oz • Apple, 5.1 oz • 1% milk, 10 fl oz • Super White rice, 12.8 oz C vegetable cocktail juice, 5.5 fl oz • Yogi chai tea, 8 fl oz • Tap water, 28.7 fl oz SNACKS AND OTHER Puffed rice, 1.3 oz • Well water, 28.7 fl oz PROFILE PROFILE AGE 16 HEIGHT 5'9 ½" WEIGHT 130 pounds AGE 38 HEIGHT 5'2" WEIGHT 130 pounds The Finkens grow some of their own vegetables, buy organic and A community microloan financed Shahnaz’s cows, which she milks local food when affordable, and do not own a car. Coco is the in between preparations for her day’s cooked meals. Shahnaz does family’s only vegetarian. Before biking to school, she usually enjoys not drink this milk; she sells it, but enjoys a variety of other foods— a soy-milk-and-fresh-fruit smoothie and her meal preferences— from store-bought cookies to traditional chile-spiced meat curries, tofu dishes and vegetable soups—have made their way into the stir-fried greens, mashed lentils, fresh vegetable salads, and rice. entire family’s dinner menu. GENERAL AND FOOD-RELATED GENERAL AND FOOD-RELATED STATISTICS FOR BANGLADESH STATISTICS FOR CANADA LIFE EXPECTANCY (F/M) (years) 75.6/71.3 LIFE EXPECTANCY (F/M) (years) 84.7/79.3 GDP (per capita, PPP$) 3,790 GDP (per capita, PPP$) 43,420 OVERWEIGHT (F/M) (% of pop. >15 yrs. of age) 19.6/14.4 OVERWEIGHT (F/M) (% of pop. >15 yrs. of age) 63.4/72.0 UNDERNOURISHED (% of pop.) 16.4 UNDERNOURISHED (% of pop.) <5.0 MEAT CONSUMPTION (annual, per capita, in lbs.) 6.8 MEAT CONSUMPTION (annual, per capita, in lbs.) 212.3 Calories Social Studies School Service Calories Social Studies School Service Food portraits do not show average daily caloric intake, but serve as “snapshots in time,” directly reflecting each individual’s circumstances at the time of the photograph. Food portraits do not show average daily caloric intake, but serve as “snapshots in time,” directly reflecting each individual’s circumstances at the time of the photograph. 2000 Photographs © Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com • From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio Bangladesh 1900 Photographs © Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com • From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio Canada © 2010, 2020 Social Studies School Service, 10200 Jefferson Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 • www.socialstudies.com • ZP949 v2.0 © 2010, 2020 Social Studies School Service, 10200 Jefferson Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 • www.socialstudies.com • ZP949 v2.0 CHINA: CHEN ZHEN COLLEGE STUDENT 2600 Calories ISRAEL: OFER SABATH BEIT-HALACHMI RABBI 3100 Calories One Day’s Food PROFILE One Day’s Food PROFILE AGE 20 HEIGHT 5'5" WEIGHT 106 pounds AGE 43 HEIGHT 6'1" WEIGHT 165 pounds IN JUNE IN OCTOBER Chen Zhen’s father and grandparents spend less during the week so they can afford to add meat to meals Ofer’s wife is a vegetarian, but he occasionally eats meat outside their home. Ofer and his wife’s BREAKFAST Fantuan (rice roll) filled with youtiao (deep-fried bread), dried pork threads, pickled during her weekend visits from college. Though she mainly eats traditional Chinese fare, she collects fast BREAKFAST Rugelach (pastry), chocolate (2), 3.3 oz • Nescafe instant coffee, 12 fl oz; with whole commitment to maintaining a meat-free household is the result of their desire to be able to host Jews from vegetables, and spicy, salted mustard greens, 7.3 oz • Guangming whole milk, 8.5 fl oz food coupons and spends wages earned working at a Hello Kitty store on lunches with friends at KFC. milk, 1 tbsp • Filtered water, 9.1 fl oz • Coffee (at work; not in picture), 8 fl oz all denominations, but also due to the influence of eco-kashrut. The philosophy examines kashrut, the traditional Jewish dietary laws, through the prism of humankind’s heavy footprint on the earth in order to LUNCH KFC breaded chicken thigh, regular, 3.7 oz • KFC crispy chicken sandwich, 4 oz • KFC french LUNCH Salmon sandwich: Café Hillel low-calorie bread, whole wheat, 5.4 oz; lox, 1.8 oz; tomato, lessen that impact both for the good of the earth and for spiritual well-being. fries (not in picture), small, 2.3 oz • KFC hot fudge sundae, 5 oz GENERAL AND FOOD-RELATED STATISTICS FOR CHINA 1.8 oz; lettuce, 0.2 oz; low-fat cream cheese, 1 tbsp • Kalamata olives, 0.7 oz • Coffee, 10.9 fl oz LIFE EXPECTANCY (F/M) (years) 78.0/73.6 DINNER Suanchao youcai (a vegetable similar to bok choy, stir-fried with garlic), 2 oz • Hongshao MIDAFTERNOON SNACKS Pita bread, 2 oz • Hummus with pine nuts, 4.2 oz • Eggplant with GENERAL AND FOOD-RELATED STATISTICS FOR ISRAEL qiezi (eggplant, stir-fried with garlic, soy sauce, and red chili pepper flakes), 2.9 oz • Soup of tomato GDP (per capita, PPP$) 15,500 mayonnaise, 3 oz • Coca-Cola, 16.9 fl oz • Coffee, 12 fl oz LIFE EXPECTANCY (F/M) (years) 84.5/80.7 and egg, 8 oz • White rice, 3.6 oz OVERWEIGHT (F/M) (% of pop. >15 yrs. of age) 33.6/37.2 DINNER Rigatoni pasta, 2.4 oz; with organic ketchup, 1.3 oz • Pita bread, 2 oz • Turkish tomato GDP (per capita, PPP$) 37,330 THROUGHOUT THE DAY Bottled water, 1.1 gal UNDERNOURISHED (% of pop.) 9.3 spread, 1.6 oz • Dannon yogurt, plain, 7.1 oz • Hard-boiled egg, 2.4 oz • Cottage cheese, 3.9 oz • (% of pop. >15 yrs. of age) 60.4/68.6 Cucumber, 2.4 oz • Tomato, 6.9 oz • Filtered water, 18 fl oz OVERWEIGHT (F/M) MEAT CONSUMPTION (annual, per capita, in lbs.) 131.2 UNDERNOURISHED (% of pop.) <5.0 SNACKS AND OTHER Ice cream, vanilla with caramel, 3.9 oz (not in picture) • Homemade China cookies, 1.2 oz • Red wine, 7.2 fl oz • Multivitamin • Filtered water, 18 fl oz MEAT CONSUMPTION (annual, per capita, in lbs.) 219.8 Israel Social Studies School Service Food portraits do not show average daily caloric intake, but serve as “snapshots in time,” directly reflecting each individual’s circumstances at the time of the photograph. Photographs © Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com • From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio • © 2010, 2020 Social Studies School Service, 10200 Jefferson Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 • www.socialstudies.com • ZP949 v2.0 Social Studies School Service Food portraits do not show average daily caloric intake, but serve as “snapshots in time,” directly reflecting each individual’s circumstances at the time of the photograph. Photographs © Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com • From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio • © 2010, 2020 Social Studies School Service, 10200 Jefferson Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 • www.socialstudies.com • ZP949 v2.0 JAPAN: MIYABIYAMA SUMO WRESTLER 3500 Calories KENYA: NOOLKISARUNI TARAKUAI MAASAI HERDER 800 Calories One Day’s Food PROFILE One Day’s Food PROFILE AGE 29 HEIGHT 6'2" WEIGHT 400 pounds AGE 38 HEIGHT 5'5" WEIGHT 103 pounds IN JUNE IN JANUARY As an amateur fighter at age fifteen, Miyabiyama, like his fellows, force-fed himself to achieve fighting Politics, development, and drought have significantly affected the food available to the Maasai pastoralists, EARLY WORKOUT Water (sipped ritually between bouts) weight, but he now eats only enough to maintain his 400-pound frame. Conscious of the threat of high BREAKFAST AND DINNER Ugali (thick cornmeal porridge), 14.1 oz (only half is pictured) • whose traditional diet consists of meat, blood, and milk.