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9 mars 2015

The Nutrition Transition

A rather interesting article turned up in the newspaper this week. Mayotte has been in the middle of a nutritional transition (poetically put) for quite a few years now. From not having enough to eat and suffering from various lacks and deficiencies,...

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Tags: mayotte, cassava, food, water, chicken wings, rice, supermarket, coconut, oil, beef, diabetes, fat, sugar, nutrition, cholesterol, malnourished, obesity, overweight, pregnancy, underweight

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28 juillet 2014

This Little M'Zungu Went To Market... and she bought...

This is the outdoor market in Mamoudzou. Pretty much a permanent fixture, currently augmented reality thanks to the Ramadan market which has appended itself on top of the original. I'm quite pleased with these photos because photos of the market are hard...

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Tags: mayotte, cassava, fruit, tomato, vegetable, clothes, salouva, fish, boat, market, fat, headscarf, onion, china, fisherman, mamoudzouThis l, size, taiwan

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17 décembre 2012

Please do not spit in the hospital. Thank you.

We went on a boat trip the other day with our friend Franck and a friend of his, a doctor named Brigitte. We now know that... The most wide-spread illnesses in Mayotte are high blood pressure and diabetes. However, the women may be fat, they never suffer...

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Tags: dzaoudzi, mamoudzou, mayotte, girl, women, children, men, age, blood, diabetes, doctor, fat, hospital, ill, jacaranda, patient, pressure, sick, spit

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