Example: India & China
Developing countries today are passing through what nutrition experts call a ‘dietary transition’. The dietary transition consists of a number of interlinked shifts:

• A change in the methods of food production, processing, storage and distribution. As a capitalist economy assumes preponderance there come, usually in urban areas first and increasingly in rural areas, store-brought foods. There occurs a shift from traditional staple foods to processed foods. Subsidies on staples encourage a change in staple preferences: more milled and polished grain; more corn, or rice and wheat

• A change in dietary preferences