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The nutrition transition : diet and disease in the developing world /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Caballero, Benjamin, Popkin, Barry M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, [2002]
Series:Food science and technology (Academic Press).
Subjects:
Diet > adverse effects.
Disease > etiology.
Developing Countries.
Table of Contents:
  • Economic and technological development and their relationships to body size and productivity
  • Food production
  • Can the challenges of poverty, sustainable consumption and good health governance be addressed in an era of globalization?
  • Demographic trends
  • The dynamics of the dietary transition in the developing world
  • Early nutrition conditions and later risk of disease
  • Obesity in the developing world
  • Diabetes
  • Cardiovascular diseases
  • The nutrition transition in China : a new stage of the Chinese diet
  • Trends in under- and overnutrition in Brazil
  • Policy implications