Supermarkets stock fresh fruit and vegetables in the middle of winter.
Meats and canned and processed goods of all sorts line the aisles. Food is abundant and readily available in most industrialized countries. As a result, the general feeling is that whatever problems industrialized countries may have, malnutrition is surely not one of them. Yet, readily available and sufficient food does not automatically bring about good nutrition. On the contrary, obesity is one major nutrition-related problem in the United States.