Keeping tabs on the world’s food

In real time

By Culinate staff

September 29, 2009

Worldometers delights and face-smacks at the same time. Scroll down, past the population counters — in real time — past the government-and-economics, society-and-media, and environment sections, to food. Here you can watch as the count rises for

• tons of food produced
• undernourished people
• obese people

and more. Perhaps most fascinating is the huge amount of money spent on weight-loss programs in the United States (which includes so-called “diet foods”): $29 billion so far this year. And counting.