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THE NUTRITION TRANSITION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD

THE NUTRITION TRANSITION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD. What has happened? What are some unique elements of the shifts in diet, activity, obesity, and other measures of morbidity and mortality in each region of the world?

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THE NUTRITION TRANSITION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD

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  1. THE NUTRITION TRANSITION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD • What has happened? What are some unique elements of the shifts in diet, activity, obesity, and other measures of morbidity and mortality in each region of the world? • What is unique about the experience in lower and middle income less industrialized countries compared with the very high income industrialized countries?

  2. Department of Nutrition The School of Public Health The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The shift in stages of the nutrition transition in the developing world differs from past experiences!Barry Popkin

  3. Stages of Health, Nutrition, and Demographic Change Demographic Transition Epidemiologic Transition Nutrition Transition High fertility/ mortality High prevalence infectious disease High prevalence undernutrition Reduced mortality, changing age structure Receding pestilence, poor environmental conditions Receding famine Focus on family planning, infectious disease control Focus on famine alleviation/prevention Reduced fertility, aging Chronic diseases predominate Diet-related noncommunicable diseases predominate Focus on healthy aging spatial redistribution Focus on medical intervention, policy initiatives, behavioral change

  4. Stages of the Nutrition Transition Urbanization, economic growth, technological changes for work, leisure, & food processing, mass media growth Pattern 3 Receding Famine Pattern 4 Degenerative Disease Pattern 5 Behavioral Change • starchy, low variety, • low fat,high fiber • labor-intensive • work/leisure • increased fat, sugar, • processed foods • shift in technology of • work and leisure • reduced fat, increased • fruit, veg,CHO,fiber • replace sedentarianism • with purposeful changes • in recreation, other activity MCH deficiencies, weaning disease, stunting obesity emerges, bone density problems reduced body fatness, improved bone health accelerated life expectancy, shift to increased DR-NCD, increased disability period extended health aging, reduced DR-NCD Slow mortality decline

  5. Assertion 1. The shifts in patterns of diet, physical activity and body composition seem to be occurring more rapidly • The obesity patterns are much higher for the level of development than heretofore found • The rates of change are very rapid or at least the data we have seem to lead to that conclusion • child trends-comparison • adult patterns and trends

  6. Changes in the Income Elasticity for Edible Oil Food Consumption in China (Increases in Income Elasticity Between 1989-93) Amount of Edible Oil Users Consume 95% Confidence Interval 95% Confidence Interval Source: Guo et al. (2000). Econ Dev Cult Chg 48:737

  7. Assertion: Biological differences accentuate and speed up the effects of nutritional changes • There are important body composition differences that lead to shifts in BMI-disease patterns. The Asian recommendation to reduce the BMI cutoff for overweight and obesity are examples. • The rapid shift in the stage of the nutrition transition enhances the effects of fetal and infant insults. Stunting may affect fat metabolism (Hoffman et al, AJCN. 72: 702–7). • Unclear effects of different disease profiles.

  8. Compared to US-White males, the odds of prevalent hypertension were significantly higher for Chinese men at every level of BMI above the range 18.5-22.9 kg/m2. Adjusting for waist:hip ratio attenuated the ethnic differences but did not eliminate them. * p < 0.05 from US-White men Source: Bell et al, AJE (in press)

  9. Fetal insults: Systolic Blood Pressure Among Cebu Male Adolescents According to BMI at Birth and Age 15-16 Source: Adair et al, 2001.

  10. The politics differ! • When undernutrition/hunger are still important, it is more difficult to create a focus and agenda for DR-NCD’s. Still, large proportions of households with underweight persons also have overweight persons (see Doak presentation). • Public health systems have not had any time to adjust to this new reality. • Our array of tested prevention options is limited. The Nutrition Transition supplement of Public Health Nutrition in February 2002 will highlight some program and policy options.

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