The emerging epidemic of obesity in developing countries.

By A. Prentice. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2006

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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• Global, regional, and national prevalence of adult overweight and obesity, 1990–2021, with forecasts to 2050: a forecasting study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 (2025, neutral): “54 As highlighted in the 2019 Lancet Commission on the syndemic of undernutrition, overnutrition, and climate change, 55 many LMICs, including those in sub-Saharan Africa, south Asia, southeast Asia, and in the Pacific, have a double burden of malnutrition, with a high prevalence of undernutrition,…”
• 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).”
• Agricultural labour productivity, food prices and sustainable development impacts and indicators (2013, background): “…(with climate change perhaps the most serious and egregious example), associated biodiversity loss, health problems (increasing incidence of obesity and related diseases alongside continued undernutrition – McLellan, 2002; Prentice, 2006), and negative impacts of globalisation and inequity.”
• Part II: Policy instruments for sustainable road transport (2010, neutral): “, 2006) and many developing countries (Prentice, 2006).”
• Ten Putative Contributors to the Obesity Epidemic (2009, neutral): “The model can explain a number of features of the demography of obesity, such as the rapid appearance in populations in transition (Prentice, 2006) and the higher incidence in first-born children (Stettler et al.”
• Physical activity in the United States measured by accelerometer. (2008, background): “population (16), as well as among residents of countries around the world (18,34).”
• Obesity and the metabolic syndrome in developing countries. (2008, background): “be key mediators of development of obesity (147).”