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Tourism is an increasingly common form of economic development. Like other forms of capitalist development, tourism can have uneven impacts on the economics, culture, nutrition, and health of local groups (Ruiz et al. 2014). Research in the Yucatan of Mexico (Bogin et al. 2014; Leatherman and Goodman 2005; Leatherman et al. 2019; Pi-Sunyer and Thomas 1997), for example, has demonstrated the impacts of tourism on the social life, economy, identity, and diets of Mayan communities drawn into the tourist economy. One aspect of this research has focused on dietary change commensurate with the commoditization of food systems and increased consumption of processed foods and “junk” foods (Leatherman and Goodman 2005). Mexico is a leader in per-capita consumption of soft drinks, and poor children in Mayan communities may take in 20% of their calories through soft drinks and snack foods. Micronutrient deficiencies are evident in the diets of individuals with uneven access to secure jobs or sufficient land and labor to meet food needs through agricultural production. A pattern of undernourished and stunted children and overweight adults is emerging in these communities, which fits the pattern of emergent obesity and diabetes found in more urbanized areas of the Yucatan and elsewhere in the developing world.