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Picture of health

This photo went out over the wires last week to accompany a report about "recession obesity." Doctors are worried that kids will become obese because their parents substitute fast food when they can no longer afford the healthy stuff. Health is one of those things that's difficult to picture well (something I'll be paying more attention to as health care debates heat up this summer). I like this image because it gets beyond the typical "fast food nation" images of fat families coming out of McDonald's, etc. And because it offers a cartoonish, almost demonic fast food face, donut-eyes and all.

Credit: AFP/Robert Sullivan via Yahoo!News Photos

09 June 2009 in visual politics | Permalink

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That's not a wire service photograph; that's the Newman Center Wednesday lunch in Champaign, Illinois

Posted by: oratoricalanimal | 09 June 2009 at 06:07 PM

The Holey Grail for fast food lovers. Why am I drooling?

Posted by: Lu | 10 June 2009 at 03:20 PM

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