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Nutrition and Development Series
The Nutrition Transition and Prevention of Diet-related Chronic Diseases in Asia and the Pacific

Food and Nutrition Bulletin Special Supplement December 2001
Barry Popkin, Susan Horton, and Soowon Kim (2001)

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Chronic diseases may soon dominate the disease burden of Asia and the Pacific - at much higher cost to families and health systems than infectious diseases.

This can be gleaned from this publication, a pioneering work that presents the

• burdens of hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, stroke and obesity
• emerging threat of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes epidemic in the region
• problem of malnourished infants who are at much higher risk of developing chronic diseases in mid-life
• the poor's double burden of malnutrition that can be averted through careful policies and programs
• impact of diet in infancy and in middle age on the incidence of chronic diseases in infancy and in middle age on chronic diseases
• role of policies on food, agriculture, price, fiscal, health, education and communication in creating dietary and behavioral change for improved health and productivity
• importance of regulatory and dietary guidelines in setting the policy agenda for promotive health

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Contents

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Dietary and related factors leading to increases in chronic diseases [ PDF: 107kb | 11 pages ]

The importance of the nutrition transition for health [ PDF: 59kb | 5 pages ]

Diet-related conditions that increase the risk of chronic disease [ PDF: 40kb | 5 pages ]

Major diet-related chronic diseases [ PDF: 38kb | 3 pages ]

Case study for the People’s Republic of China [ PDF: 55kb | 8 pages ]

Case study for Sri Lanka [ PDF: 40kb | 5 pages ]

Program options for diet-related interventions to control epidemic, chronic diseases in Asia and the Pacific [ PDF: 40kb | 4 pages ]

Proposals for policies and programs addressing epidemic, chronic, diet-related diseases in Asia and Small Island Developing States of the Pacific [ PDF: 28kb | 3 pages ]

References [ PDF: 40kb | 4 pages ]