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Additional authors

1. Caballero, Benjamin.
2. Popkin, Barry M.

Description

1. xi, 261 pages : illustrations, color maps; 26 cm.

Summary

1. This book deals with the dramatic changes in diet and lifestyle that are occurring in the developing world as a result of globalization, and their impact on human health. The editors have assembled a leading group of scientists in the fields of economics, population sciences, international health, medicine, nutrition and food sciences, to address each of the key issues related to the changes in demographic trends, food production and marketing, and disease patterns in the developing world. The Nutrition Transition provides essential information to understand the far-reaching effects that global economic, social and cultural trends are having on diet-related disease patterns in countries of transition. Key features: contains numerous illustrative figures and tables; two case studies included--on China and Brazil; foreword written by Nevin Scrimshaw, recipient of the World Food Prize.

Series statement

1. Food science and technology international series

Uniform title

1. Food science and technology international series

Subject

1. Nutritionally induced diseases > Developing countries
2. Diet in disease > Developing countries
3. Food habits > Developing countries
4. Nutrition Disorders > complications
5. Developing Countries
6. Diet > trends
7. Disease > etiology
8. Socioeconomic Factors
9. Diet in disease
10. Food habits
11. Nutritionally induced diseases
12. Régime alimentaire > effets indésirables
13. Maladie > étiologie
14. Pays en développement
15. Aufsatzsammlung
16. Ernährungskrankheit
17. Gesundheit
18. Änderung
19. Ernährung
20. Voeding
21. Gezondheid
22. Nutrição
23. Dietoterapia
24. Maladies d'origine nutritionnelle > Pays en voie de développement
25. Developing countries
26. Entwicklungsländer

Contents

1. Introduction / Benjamin Caballero and Barry M. Popkin -- Part I. The global context -- Economic and technological development and their relationships to body size and productivity / Robert W. Gogel and Lorens A. Helmchen -- Food production / Vaclav Smil -- Can the challenges of poverty, sustainable consumption and good health governance be addressed in an era of globalization? / Tim Lang -- Demographic trends / Hania Zlotnik -- Part II. Biological factors affecting the nutrition transition -- The dynamics of the dietary transition in the developing world / Barry M. Popkin -- Early nutrition conditions and later risk of disease / Linda S. Adair -- Obesity in the developing world / Reynaldo Martorell -- Diabetes / Kerin O'Dea and Leonard S. Piers -- Cardiovascular diseases / K. Srinath Reddy -- The nutrition transition in China: a new stage of the Chinese diet / Shufa Du [and others] -- Trends in under- and overnutrition in Brazil / Carlos A. Monteiro, Wolney L. Conde, and Barry M. Popkin -- Policy implications / Benjamin Caballero and Barry M. Popkin.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.