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Exhibit shows eating habits around the world

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February 20, 2012|By Deborah Kotz

You can learn quite a bit about your eating habits from perusing photos of 25 diets from around the world in a new exhibit at the Museum of Science, Boston. Perhaps your diet resembles the 8,400 calories a day consumed by the orange soda-chugging Namibian truck driver. Or maybe you’re eating like the guy who troubleshoots your computer glitches at a call center in Bangalore: He grabs what he can from the fast-food chains in the basement of his building.

The photo essay exhibit, which runs through Feb. 26, contains images showing a complete accounting of every morsel of food consumed by a particular subject in a given day with calorie counts ranging from 800 a day - a tribal chief’s wife in the middle of a Kenyan famine - up to 12,300 calories a day, a binge eater in Britain on the day of a binge.

It’s based on the book “What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets’’ by photojournalist Peter Menzel and his wife, writer Faith D’Aluisio, which was published last fall. In a phone interview from his California home, Menzel said the book and museum exhibit aim to inspire people to “come away with a much better understanding of their own eating habits, what they’re doing right and wrong.’’

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