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The rich world's diseases come from solving the old problem. Part I: economic progress created an environment of plenty, so people in developed countries rarely die of starvation or material scarcity, and the new age of excess produced an epidemic of noncommunicable disease and mental illness that is harder and costlier to treat. Today more people die from diabetes than from malnutrition or starvation. The pattern is that a solved problem is replaced by a problem created by the solution.
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more people die from diabetes than malnutrition or starvation. What’s worse is that economic solutions and societal systems evolve to address the historical problems our people face. Our economic systems are substantially better adapted to
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