The rapid emergence of obesity in developing countries
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The last century witnessed a remarkable change in patterns of disease. The control of infectious disease, together with changing life styles, led to longer life expectancies and the emergence of chronic disease as a primary cause of death. This change from infectious to chronic disease, first described by Omran [1], is known as the epidemiologic transition. However, as a result of the occurrence of HIV and related drug-resistant infections, some countries have witnessed a reversal in the expected trends [2]. In spite of HIV and related rises in the prevalences of infectious disease, obesity and chronic disease prevalences are still emerging at an accelerated rate in many developing countries [3–5]. In fact, prevalences of overweight/obesity exceed that of undernutrition in a majority of 37 developing countries studied in both urban and rural areas [6]. Overweight and obesity are emerging in developing countries as a result of rapidly changing lifestyle.
CHAP
Nutrition and Health in Developing Countries
Nutrition and Health Series
Doak, Colleen Marie
Popkin, Barry M.
Semba, Richard D.
Bloem, Martin W.
Piot, Peter
2008
617-638
Humana Press
978-1-934115-24-4
10.1007/978-1-59745-464-3_21
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