Interesting Facts

After being told to eat 3 square meals a day all our lives, experts are now warning us that eating breakfast, lunch and dinner may be damaging our health. (Abigail Carroll, who wrote 'Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal', argues that the idea of eating three meals a day is a European invention from the Middle Ages, supposedly more civilised than eating when you're hungry. Now experts are saying that fasting can be good for your health. Maybe they are just getting us ready for food shortages.)

A New York pizza restaurant is charging $1,000 for a pizza. (Labelled the 'most expensive pizza in the world', the pizza is prepared with thinly sliced lobster and creme fraiche, and then you can choose between two of the most expensive caviars in the world as an extra topping, The restaurant owner, Nino Selimaj, says it is worth every penny, "We sell them to politicians, Wall Street traders, or couples celebrating a birthday or anniversary," he said. I praise his entrepreneurial spirit, and the fact he is able to squeeze a bit of that banker's bonus out of people who can afford it, but during a recession and with half the world going hungry, I have to question his ethics, and those of his customers.)

According to the UN, 1.02 billion people throughout the world suffer from hunger. (The number of people suffering from hunger has increased by 100 million because of the global financial crisis, making it a record high - one-sixth of humanity. Asia-Pacific: 642m Sub-Saharan Africa: 265m Latin America and Caribbean: 53m Middle East and North Africa: 42m Developed world: 15m Source: FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization)