Koshari is not a nutritious diet, unfortunately: Egypt has a food problem that is driving the segments of the country’s population poor, undernourished, and simultaneously obese, Maddison Sawle writes in Mada Masr. The problem is reflected in high rates of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, Sawle writes, “an inevitable consequence of a food and health system that is broken.” She notes fundamental shifts in Egyptians’ eating habits “associated with changes in working patterns and the high cost of food, especially fruit, compounded by a subsidy program that only subsidizes carbohydrate-heavy food — with the working poor being the least able to cope… Poverty removes access to expensive and relatively better food, especially essential green vegetables and herbs.”