Changing diets: Urbanization and the nutrition transition
Diets are changing with rising incomes and urbanization— people are consuming more animal-source foods, sugar, fats and oils, refined grains, and processed foods. This “nutrition transition” is causing increases in overweight and obesity and diet-related diseases such as diabetes and heart disease....
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| author | Hawkes, Corinna Harris, Jody Gillespie, Stuart |
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| description | Diets are changing with rising incomes and urbanization— people are consuming more animal-source foods, sugar, fats and oils, refined grains, and processed foods. This “nutrition transition” is causing increases in overweight and obesity and diet-related diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. Urban residents are making the nutrition transition fastest— but it is occurring in rural areas too. Urban food environments—with supermarkets, food vendors, and restaurants—facilitate access to unhealthy diets, although they can also improve access to nutritious foods for people who can afford them. For the urban poor, the most easily available and affordable diets are often unhealthy. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1464562025-11-06T05:26:10Z Changing diets: Urbanization and the nutrition transition Hawkes, Corinna Harris, Jody Gillespie, Stuart income value chains urban population animal products policies taxes urban areas urbanization processed foods labels nutrition markets fats oils labelling controls heart diseases diet labelling rural areas supermarkets diabetes sugar obesity Diets are changing with rising incomes and urbanization— people are consuming more animal-source foods, sugar, fats and oils, refined grains, and processed foods. This “nutrition transition” is causing increases in overweight and obesity and diet-related diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. Urban residents are making the nutrition transition fastest— but it is occurring in rural areas too. Urban food environments—with supermarkets, food vendors, and restaurants—facilitate access to unhealthy diets, although they can also improve access to nutritious foods for people who can afford them. For the urban poor, the most easily available and affordable diets are often unhealthy. 2017 2024-06-21T09:07:07Z 2024-06-21T09:07:07Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146456 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896292529 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Hawkes, Corinna; Harris, Jody; and Gillespie, Stuart. 2017. Changing diets: Urbanization and the nutrition transition. In 2017 Global Food Policy Report. Chapter 4. Pp 34-41. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896292529_04. |
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| title | Changing diets: Urbanization and the nutrition transition |
| title_full | Changing diets: Urbanization and the nutrition transition |
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