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Tobacco introduced to Europe
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Coffee brought to England
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The first ice cream parlour opened in New York City
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The first canned food is sold in London
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A factory in California was successfully able to manufacture sugar in a profitable manner
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Machines are made that can mass produce cigarettes
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Coca Cola invented
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Cancer risk is 1 in 30 people
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First compulsory pasteurization laws passed in Chicago
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First hamburger fast food chain "White Castle"
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The first pre cooked frozen meals sold by birds eye
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McDonald's opens their first restaurant in California
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First use of antibiotics
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Earl Tupper invents plastic food containers and founds the TUppeware company
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The first microvave oven "Radarange" is introduced
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Grain fed farm raised fish is started
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Lung Caner is now the number 1 killer cancer in the western world
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First approval for field tests of modified food plants: virus resistant tomatoes
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The USDA introduces the food pyramid which tells us to eat 6-11 serves of carbohydrates (rice, bread, pasta) a day!
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Americans spend more than $11o billion on fast foodm which is about 90% of all the money spent on food by Americans
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Nearly 2 out of every 3 American adults are overweight
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There has been a 17 fold increase in type 1 diabetes from 1 in 7100 in 1950's to 1 in 400 now
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Despite all of science and medical advances and discoveries, we are getting sicker. We have to change the way we do things. Ref: Deepak Chopra, M.D, Michael Murray, N.D., and the metagenics corp.
