Citation
Popkin, Barry M. (2017). Relationship between Shifts in Food System Dynamics and Acceleration of the Global Nutrition Transition.
Nutrition Reviews, 75(2), 73-82. PMCID: PMC5914433
Abstract
Over the past 2 decades a remarkable change in the way the world’s population shops and eats has occurred. Related to that has been a transformative change in the chain of food – from farm to fork – and the forces that control it. While most populations in the post World War II era consumed much of their diet in the form of home-cooked basic commodities – vegetable, tuber, or animal-source foods, this has shifted remarkably. Now it seems that the task of cooking has vanished from many households and the food consumed in much of the world is shifting from purchases made at local fresh markets to packaged and processed ready-to-eat or ready-to-heat food. My purpose in writing this piece is to help the nutrition community understand (1) how rapidly the system underlying what we eat has shifted, (2) how these shifts are affecting human health across the world, and (3) how these changes have shifted the ways countries are attempting to encourage healthier diets using the policy options they have available to them.
URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nutrit/nuw064Reference Type
Journal Article
Year Published
2017
Journal Title
Nutrition Reviews
Author(s)
Popkin, Barry M.
PMCID
PMC5914433
ORCiD
Popkin - 0000-0001-9495-9324
