Sentence examples for acquired affluence from inspiring English sources
We have watched a natural experiment play out at a scale unmatched by any clinical trial: as cultures have acquired affluence and started doing less physical work and eating more highly processed foods, they have joined us in the dark wood of modern epidemiology where obesity and chronic disease prevail.
Capital can produce affluence.
But whatever its title, it has been clear for some time, as prices soar and crime rates tumble, that the area encompassing Avenues A, B, C and D from 14th Street to Houston Street has acquired a patina of affluence and stylishness even as it remains a bastion of middle class dwellings and subsidized housing.
Visitors from Lima are astonished to find that provincial Piura has acquired cinemas and boutiques, but the affluence has given new scope to human rapacity.
When looking for metabolic signs of such insufficient adaptation, one of the more relevant associations is that between diseases of affluence and leptin resistance, an acquired insensitivity to high levels of leptin [ 32- 38].
Further, we know that simply by moving to America, people from nations with low rates of these "diseases of affluence" will quickly acquire them.
"Our parents remembered the Depression and the war, and collecting trading stamps was all part of the dream of affluence, which meant acquiring your Levitt home and your television and your first appliances," said David Monod, a historian and the author of "Store Wars: Shopkeepers and the Culture of Mass Marketing, 1890-1939".
