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 New lands of the free [1]

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Example: India & China [2]
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

Publication Date: 
14/07/2003
Down to Earth [3]
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Food Crops [4], Nutrition [5], Malnutrition [6], Fast Foods [7], Food Storage [8], Trade [9], Rural Habitat [10], Urbanisation [11], Heart Diseases [12], Diabetes [13], Obesity [14], China [15], India [16], Assam [17], Gujarat [18], Kerala [19], Tamil Nadu [20], Developing Countries [21], Statistics [22]

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[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/diabetes
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[22] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/statistics