Citation
Popkin, Barry M. (2010). The Implications of the Nutrition Transition for Obesity in the Developing World. In Crawford, D.; Jeffery, R.W.; Ball, K.; & Brug, J. (Eds.), Obesity Epidemiology: From Aetiology to Public Health (pp. 136-58).Abstract
From limited nationally representative surveys, the shifts in diet and physical activity patterns around the world have accelerated in the past decade. Rapid increases in the globalization of the food-supply and food-distribution networks, technology related to work and leisure, and the coverage of mass media are key global causal factors. Each of these global forces, along with urbanization and other shifts at the local level, underlie the quickening of the rate of change of diet and activity patterns of large subpopulation groups in most countries. This chapter highlights data on these dietary trends with a combination of individual dietary-intake analysis and more aggregate consumption analysis. It then discusses the implications of these trends for public health policy and programmes.