The obesity epidemic is a worldwide phenomenon.

By Barry M. Popkin, C. Doak. Nutrition reviews, 2009

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Subfields: Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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In Physiology

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2. L. Khurana
3. C. Hawkes
4. V. Smil
5. Anthony Winson
6. L. Birch
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8. C. Monteiro

Citations in the corpus

• Childhood obesity: causes and consequences (2015, background): “The highest prevalence rates of childhood obesity have been observed in developed countries; however, its prevalence is increasing in developing countries as well.[1] Females are more likely to be obese as compared to males, owing to inherent hormonal differences.”
• Eating Meat: Evolution, Patterns, and Consequences (2002, background): “A higher incidence of obesity is now also seen in Europe and in such lower-income countries as Mexico, Egypt, and South Africa (Popkin and Doak 1998).”
• Bringing political economy into the debate on the obesity epidemic (2004, background): “Foodscapes of developed and developing societies may differ dramatically, although many of the same trends found in the developed world also characterize the urban areas of the wealthier developing countries ( Popkin and Doak, 1998 ).”
• Obesity and health‐related quality of life (2001, background): “These include: (1) Are there cultural/ethnic differences in the perceived effect of obesity on HRQL? (this will require the use of validated foreign language versions of HRQL instruments; ref.”
• Obesity in South Africa: the South African demographic and health survey. (2002, background): “In these communities, a malnutrition pattern is predominantly characterized by undernutrition in children, whereas in adults, ever-increasing obesity is found (2).”
• Trends of obesity and underweight in older children and adolescents in the United States, Brazil, China, and Russia. (2002, background): “Many studies have documented the increases in overweight among adults (1, 2), and most recently 2 comprehensive studies examined obesity in preschool children from developing countries (3, 4), but few efforts have been made to address this issue among older children and adolescents worldwide.”
• The biology of white adipocyte proliferation (2001, neutral): “significant health problem in developing countries (1).”
• Obesity and the metabolic syndrome in developing countries. (2008, background): “In 1998, Popkin and Doak (23) reported an increase in prevalence of obesity from 2.”
• Childhood overweight: a contextual model and recommendations for future research (2001, background): “There has been a shift away from the consumption of fruit, vegetables, and grains and a large increase in the use of pre-made and convenience foods (including eating out), which are generally high in fat (55,56).”
• The global burden of chronic diseases: overcoming impediments to prevention and control. (2004, background): “For example, as economic development occurs, tobacco use and obesity (and presumably other risk behaviors) increase.(9,17) Eventually uptake of risk factors leads to onset of disease.”
• The nutrition transition: an overview of world patterns of change. (2004, background): “A recently published volume summarized many of the rapid shifts in obesity and overweight status in the regions of the developing world.(1,3,4) In China, we examined the shifts in body composition among adults aged 20–45 over an 8-year period.”