Part II. What is unique about the experience in lower- and middle-income less-industrialised countries compared with the very-high-income industrialised countries? The shift in stages of the nutrition transition in the developing world differs from past experiences!

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 5, Issue 1 A, 2002, Pages 205-214

  Popkin, Barry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dietary change; Nutrition transition; Obesity; Physical activity

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ASIA; BODY COMPOSITION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIET; HEREDITY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUNGER; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INFANCY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE EAST; NUTRITION; OBESITY; OVERNUTRITION; PHASE TRANSITION; POLITICS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; INCOME; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS;

AFRICA; ASIA; BODY COMPOSITION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIET; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEALTH TRANSITION; HUMANS; INCOME; LATIN AMERICA; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; NUTRITION SURVEYS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0036463441     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2001295     Document Type: Review

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