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  • Rick Bumgardener takes a water exercise class after a gym workout at the Mercy Health and Fitness Center near his home in Halls Tennessee.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of February was 1,600 kcals. He is 54; 5 feet nine inches tall,  and 468 pounds.  Rick's new lifestyle rules out one of his favorite restaurant dinners with his wife, Connie, and son, Greg: three extra-large pizzas, crazy bread, and no vegetables. There would be leftovers, but not for long, Rick says, as he would eat all of them.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Weighing in at 468 pounds for his first exercise class at Mercy Health and Fitness Center near his home in Halls, Tennessee, Rick learns a series of seated exercises.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of February was 1,600 kcals. He is 54; 5 feet nine inches tall,  and 468 pounds. Rick's new lifestyle rules out one of his favorite restaurant dinners with his wife, Connie, and son, Greg: three extra-large pizzas, crazy bread, and no vegetables. There would be leftovers, but not for long, Rick says, as he would eat all of them. A self-taught gospel singer, guitar player, and lay preacher, Rick used to enjoy preaching and playing on Wednesday evenings at Copper Ridge Independent Missionary Baptist Church before he became too heavy to stand for long periods. To relieve boredom, he wakes up late, plays video games, plays his guitar, and watches TV until the early hours of the morning.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • At a senior center in the small city of Nago, Okinawa, elderly Japanese can spend the day in a setting reminiscent of a spa, taking footbaths, enjoying deep-water massage, and lunching with friends. With their caring, community-based nursing and assistance staff, Okinawan nursing homes and senior daycare centers, both public and private, seem wondrous places (vibrant and lively) where friends gather for foot massages, water volleyball, haircuts, or simple meals. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats)
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  • Mie Ohshiro, 100 years old and slightly deaf, listens intently as 28-year-old nursing home aid Satoru Yamanoha repeats a question posted by a visitor about this Naga City Okinawa day care facility. "I enjoy it because I have lots of friends here," she says, "and my son and his wife also use this place." Mie lives with her second son and his family but comes to the center two or three times a week for a traditional Okinawan lunch, physical therapy, and companionship.
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  • Making the long return trip from the weekly market in the valley, Orlando Ayme leads his father-in-law's horse, while his wife Ermelinda (center) carries the bundled-up baby and some of the groceries and Livia trudges along with her schoolbooks. Alvarito has literally run up the steep path ahead; like 4-year-old boys everywhere, he is a tiny ball of pure energy. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 109). (MODEL IMAGE RELEASED)
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  • Orlando Ayme, 35, (wearing a red poncho, center), sizes up a vendor of oranges before he buys some. He sold two of his sheep at this weekly market in the indigenous community of Simiatug for $35 US in order to buy potatoes, grain and vegetables for his family.  (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)(MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).
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  • Rick Bumgardner, a 500 pound retired school bus driver, at his first day of exercise classes at St. Mary's Health Center, Knoxville, Tennessee.  (Rick Bumgardener was featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Rick Bumgardner, a 500 pound retired school bus driver, at his first day of exercise classes at St. Mary's Health Center, Knoxville, Tennessee.  (Rick Bumgardener was featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Rick Bumgardner, a 500 pound retired school bus driver, at his first day of exercise classes at St. Mary's Health Center, Knoxville, Tennessee.  (Rick Bumgardener was featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Rick Bumgardner, a 500 pound retired school bus driver, at his first day of exercise classes at St. Mary's Health Center, Knoxville, Tennessee.  (Rick Bumgardener was featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Rick Bumgardner, a 500 pound retired school bus driver, at his first day of exercise classes at St. Mary's Health Center, Knoxville, Tennessee.  (Rick Bumgardener was featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Every week, the Revis family (Rosemary on treadmill talking with Ron) faithfully trekked to the health club in the Wakefield Medical Center, a hospital complex in Raleigh, North Carolina, for two-hour exercise sessions. They enjoyed the workouts, but found them so time-consuming that they wound up eating more fast food than ever. Fearing its potential impact on their health, they ultimately gave up the club in favor of dining and exercising at home. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Every week, the Revis family (foreground, Rosemary on treadmill listening to music) faithfully trekked to the health club in the Wakefield Medical Center, a hospital complex in Raleigh, North Carolina, for two-hour exercise sessions. They enjoyed the workouts, but found them so time-consuming that they wound up eating more fast food than ever. Fearing its potential impact on their health, they ultimately gave up the club in favor of dining and exercising at home. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).Every week, the Revis family (foreground, Brandon curling weights; background, left to right, Rosemary, Tyrone, and Ron) faithfully trekked to the health club in the Wakefield Medical Center, a hospital complex in Raleigh, North Carolina, for two-hour exercise sessions. They enjoyed the workouts, but found them so time-consuming that they wound up eating more fast food than ever. Fearing its potential impact on their health, they ultimately gave up the club in favor of dining and exercising at home. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 268).
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  • Every week, the Revis family (foreground, Brandon Demery, behind him is Ron) faithfully trekked to the health club in the Wakefield Medical Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, a hospital complex, for two-hour exercise sessions. They enjoyed the workouts, but found them so time-consuming that they wound up eating more fast food than ever. Fearing its potential impact on their health, they ultimately gave up the club in favor of dining and exercising at home. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Millie Mitra (center), an education consultant and homeopathy devotee, enjoys dinner with her family at home in Benson Town, Bangalore, India. (Millie Mitra is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Millie's quest for health includes yoga, a vegan diet, a daily glassful and topical applications of her own urine. She has a thirst for alternative medicine and homeopathic healing, as well as a deep interest in how her diet affects her body. She has practiced Shivambu (sometimes spelled Sivambu), which is the drinking of one's own first morning urine (200 cc in her practice) as a curative and preventative measure, for over 15 years. Millie applies urine to her skin as well, for the same reasons. Her husband Abhik has tried Shivambu and she helped her children to practice it when they were young, but currently only Millie practices urine therapy in her family. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Oswaldo Gutierrez (center), Chief of the PDVSA Oil Platform GP 19 in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, monitors operations with his colleagues on an oil rig. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a day in December was 6000 kcals. He is 52; 5'7" and 220 pounds. Gutierrez works on the platform for seven days then is off at home for seven days.   While on the platform he runs on its helipad, practices karate, lifts weights, and jumps rope to keep fit. His food for the seven days comes from the platform cafeteria which, though plagued with cockroaches, turns out food choices that run from healthful to greasy-fried. Fresh squeezed orange juice is on the menu as well and Gutierrez drinks three liters of it a day himself. His diet changed about ten years ago when he decided that he'd rather be more fit than fat like many of his platform colleagues. PDVSA is the state oil company of Venezuela.
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