The Nutrition Transition: Diet and Disease in the Developing World
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Table of contents
- Copyright Pageiv
- Contentsv
- Contributors Listvii
- Forewordix
- About the Editorsxiii
- Chapter 1. Introduction1
- Part I: The Global Context7
- Chapter 2. Economic and technological development and their relationships to body size and productiv9
- Chapter 3. Food production25
- Chapter 4. Can the challenges of poverty, sustainable consumption and good health governance be addr51
- Chapter 5. Demographic trends71
- Part II: Biological Factors Affecting the Nutrition Transition109
- Chapter 6. The dynamics of the dietary transition in the developing world111
- Chapter 7. Early nutrition conditions and later risk of disease129
- Chapter 8. Obesity in the developing world147
- Chapter 9. Diabetes165
- Chapter 10. Cardiovascular diseases191
- Chapter 11. The nutrition transition in China: a new stage of the Chinese diet205
- Chapter 12. Trends in under- and overnutrition in Brazil223
- Chapter 13. Policy implications241
- Index251
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 healt. The Editors have assembled a leading group of scientists in teh 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 patersin 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
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 patersin 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