On September 20, 2013 Times Magazine released an online article showing photographs, taken by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio, who traveled the world photographing famliles of different nations and what they consumed in a week, as well as how much money they spent on their weekly diets. The photographers traveled to 21 different countries and recorded their findings from 27 different families. The results are both shocking, as well as insightful.
Out of the sample size taken, the average amount of people per family was 6 with a standard deviation of 2.8, and the average amount of money spent was $223.92 with a standard deviation of $168.25. The Bhutan family had 13 members and spent $5.03 a week, meaning that they had over twice the amount of people in their family as the average and spent $218.89 less than the average. On the other side of the coin, Norway had 5 people in its' family and spent $731.71, more than 3 times the average. We can infer from this that Norway's cost of food is really expensive, or perhaps the family just indulges themselves, which doesn't seem likely considering none of the family members looked particularly over weight.
What I found interesting about the images were that none of the families looked malnourished or underweight, despite the fact that some families spent less than $10 a week on food. Could this mean that the human body could feasibly survive with a lot less food than we would consider "normal?" Maybe America as well as other countries who spent over $200 a week just over indulges themselves?
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