The nutrition transition : diet and disease in the developing world / editors, Benjamin Cabellero and Barry M. Popkin.

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Introduction / Benjamin Caballero and Barry M. Popkin -- Part I. The global context -- Economic and technological development and their relationships to body size and productivity / Robert W. Gogel and Lorens A. Helmchen -- Food production / Vaclav Smil -- Can the challenges of poverty, sustainable consumption and good health governance be addressed in an era of globalization? / Tim Lang -- Demographic trends / Hania Zlotnik -- Part II. Biological factors affecting the nutrition transition -- The dynamics of the dietary transition in the developing world / Barry M. Popkin -- Early nutrition conditions and later risk of disease / Linda S. Adair -- Obesity in the developing world / Reynaldo Martorell -- Diabetes / Kerin O´Dea and Leonard S. Piers -- Cardiovascular diseases / K. Srinath Reddy -- The nutrition transition in China: a new stage of the Chinese diet / Shufa Du ... [et al.] -- Trends in under- and overnutrition in Brazil / Carlos A. Monteiro, Wolney L. Conde, and Barry M. Popkin -- Policy implications / Benjamin Caballero and Barry M. Popkin.