The dual burden household and the nutrition transition. All content in this area was uploaded by barry m popkin on apr 29, 2016. The accelerating speed of change and global challenges we face for creating a healthier global diet barry popkin w. Distinguished professor of nutrition at the unc gillings school of global public health. Pdf the nutrition transition and its health implications in lower. Pdf an overview on the nutrition transition and its health. Popkin department of nutrition, school of public health and medicine. Was a member of the g7 economic reform team 19911993, led poverty and pension level creation by creating a new russian poverty line, conducted the russia long monitoring survey phases i and ii, undertook poverty research. Urbanization, lifestyle changes and the nutrition transition. He holds a doctorate in agricultural economics from cornell university. Professor and director, program in human nutrition, school of public health, university of michigan, ann arbor, michigan, usa.
His research program focuses globally on understanding the shifts in stages of the transition and programs. Nutrition transition and obesity in the developing world. China health and nutrition survey, dietary pattern, nutrition transition, trends. The shift in stages of the nutrition transition in the developing world. Pdf an overview on the nutrition transition and its. Broad shifts are occurring at a rapid pace in the structure of diet, physical activity patterns, and obesity patterns in urban areas in lower income c. Distinguished professor, nutrition adjunct professor, economics.
The changing global nutrition challenge barry m popkin phd department of nutrition, university of north carolina at chapel hill, chapel hill, north carolina, usa the rapid shift in the stage of nutrition towards a pattern of degenerative disease is accelerating in the developing world. Nutrition, agriculture, global food systems in lmics food policy 2014 14. Popkin, the nutrition transition and obesity in the developing world, the journal of nutrition, volume 1, issue 3. The nutrition transition and global food system dynamics. This paper explores the unique nutrition transition shifts in diet and activity patterns from. Global nutrition transition and the pandemic of obesity in developing countries. Barry popkin developed the concept of the nutrition transition 109, 76, 80, 75, the study of the dynamic shifts in dietary intake and physical activity patterns and trends and obesity and other nutrition related noncommunicable diseases. Popkin 6, 7 has described this pattern as a shift in the stage of the nutrition transition as a low gross national product gnp country experiences economic growth, the populations diet.
The pace of dietary change has accelerated to varying degrees in different regions of the world. Distinguished university professor department of nutrition gillings school of global public health school of medicine department of economics. The nutrition transition program the university of north carolina at chapel hill dynamics of the global nutrition transition barry m. Global nutrition transition and the pandemic of obesity in. Bm popkin is with the carolina population center, university of north.