MEDI150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Nutrition Transition, Social Marketing, Investment
6 Aug 2018
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Achieving pattern 5 is aim: what is a developing country, developing countries are defined as those low in low and middle income groups, low income and middle income countries gdp below . Includes: india, china, brazil, malaysia, indonesia, africa, south. Increased obesity and risk of non communicable diseases. Dual malnutrition: as a country gets richer, their undernutrition reduces but overnutrition increases, although shift is towards overweight and obesity, under nutrition is still an issue in these countries esp. India and china: urban areas higher levels but rural areas increasing. In some countries over 60% households contain an overweight adult and underweight child: not only changes in diet but leisure physical activity, trends in under and over nutrition 1975-1997, north eastern brazil poorer than south eastern. Effect of glabalisation: sources of major global dietary shifts, large increases in consumption of caloric beverages and increasing snacking.
