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

By Barry M. Popkin. Public Health Nutrition, 2002

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The nutrition transition: an overview of world patterns of change. (2004, methodology): “In one recent paper, we showed that the increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity during the past several decades is much faster in the developing world.(1) While the annual percentage point increase in overweight plus obesity was about 0.”
Global nutrition dynamics: the world is shifting rapidly toward a diet linked with noncommunicable diseases. (2006, background): “Patterns of the nutrition transition (2).”
Global gender disparities in obesity: a review. (2012, background): “As nutrition transitions emerge, diets tend to include greater amounts of fat, sugar, and refined carbohydrates, and lifestyles become increasingly sedentary (58).”
The Rise of a Middle Class in East and Southern Africa: Implications for Food System Transformation (2014, background): “Second, it is well-established that health problems associated with the nutrition transition1 are emerging rapidly in the developing world (Chopra et al. 2002; Popkin, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; Prentice 2006; Schmidhuber and Shetty 2005).”
Globalization, Urbanization and Nutritional Change in the Developing World (2004, background): “Brazil has also developed a new national food nutrition policy, addressing the emergence of obesity rather than underweight as the major problem of adult malnutrition (Coitinho, Monteiro and Popkin 2002; Monteiro, Conde and Popkin 2004).”