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Part II. What is unique about the experience in lower-and middle-income less-industrialised countries compared with the very-highincome industrialised countries?

The shift in stages of the nutrition transition in the developing world differes from past experiences!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2006

Barry M Popkin
Barry M Popkin*
Affiliation:
Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB # 8120 University Square, 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27516-3997, USA
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*Corresponding author: Email [email protected]
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Abstract

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Objective:

This paper explores the unique nutrition transition shifts in diet and activity patterns from the period termed the receding famine pattern to the one dominated by nutrition-related non-communicable diseases (NR-NCDs). The paper examines the speed and timing of these changes; unique components, such as the issue of finding both under- and overnutrition in the same household; potential exacerbating biological relationships that contribute to differences in the rates of changes; and political issues.

Setting:

The focus is on lower-and middle-income countries of Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.

Results:

These changes are occurring at great speed and at earlier stages of these countries economic and social development. There are some unique issues that relate to body composition and potential genetic factors. The significance of the high number of persons exposed to heavy insults during pregnancy and infancy (foetalorigins hypothesis) and the subsequent rapid shifts in energy imbalance remains to be understood. Countries that are still addressing major concerns of undernutrition are not ready to address these NR-NCDs.

Conclusions:

The developing world needs to give far greater emphasis to addressing the prevention of the adverse health consequences of this shift to the nutrition transition stage of degenerative diseases.

Keywords

Nutrition transitionDietary changePhysical activityObesity
Type
Research Article
Information
Public Health Nutrition , Volume 5 , Issue 1a , February 2002 , pp. 205 - 214
Copyright
Copyright © CABI Publishing 2002

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