An overview on the nutrition transition and its health implications: The Bellagio meeting

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 5, Issue 1 A, 2002, Pages 93-103

  Popkin, Barry M ^a  

^a University of North Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HUNGER; MORTALITY; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; AFRICA; ASIA; CATERING SERVICE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCE; LIFESTYLE; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

AFRICA; ASIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FOOD HABITS; FOOD PREFERENCES; FOOD SUPPLY; HEALTH TRANSITION; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; LIFE STYLE; NUTRITION DISORDERS; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0036464004     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2001280     Document Type: Review

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