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.
| ISBN: | 9780121536541 |
| Publication date: | 30th August 2002 |
| Author: | Benjamin, Professor Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA Caballero |
| Publisher: | Academic Press Inc an imprint of Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 276 pages |
| Series: | Food Science and Technology |
| Genres: |
Diets and dieting, nutrition Food and beverage technology |