Turkey and Iran have in recent years been rapidly expanding their economic and political ties, with trade between the two countries rising quickly. As the Treehugger blog reports, another statistic that has been ballooning in both countries is the obesity rate. In the blog post, Treehugger's Jennifer Hattam looks at the role food culture might be playing in this change. The post can be found here.
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