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Diet and Disease in the Developing World
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Benjamin Caballero, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, U.S.A.
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Description
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.
Audience
Academics working in nutrition and food science, public health specialists in academia and government, and anyone interested in nutrition's affect on
globalization such as economists and demographers.
Contents
About the Authors.
Foreword.
Introduction.
PART I: THE GLOBAL CONTEXT
Economic and technological development and their
relationships to body size and productivity.
Food Production.
Globalization of world food trade.
Demographic trends.
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II: BIOLOGICAL FACTORS AFFECTING THE NUTRITION TRANSITION
The dietary transition.
Early nutritional conditions and later risk
of disease.
Obesity.
Diabetes.
Cardiovascular diseases.
Case Study 1: China.
Case Study 2: Brazil.
Policy implications.
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Hardbound, 276 pages, publication date: AUG-2002
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-153654-1
ISBN-10: 0-12-153654-8
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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