Epidemiology and determinants of obesity in China

XF Pan, L Wang, A Pan - The lancet Diabetes & endocrinology, 2021 - thelancet.com
Obesity has become a major public health issue in China. Overweight and obesity have
increased rapidly in the past four decades, and the latest national prevalence estimates for …

Dynamics of the double burden of malnutrition and the changing nutrition reality

BM Popkin, C Corvalan, LM Grummer-Strawn - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
The double burden of malnutrition (DBM), defined as the simultaneous manifestation of both
undernutrition and overweight and obesity, affects most low-income and middle-income …

[HTML][HTML] Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the
proportion of the population who live in cities,. This has led to a widely reported view that …

[HTML][HTML] When food systems meet sustainability–Current narratives and implications for actions

C Béné, P Oosterveer, L Lamotte, ID Brouwer… - World Development, 2019 - Elsevier
The concept of food system has gained prominence in recent years amongst both scholars
and policy-makers. Experts from diverse disciplines and backgrounds have in particular …

Obesity and the food system transformation in Latin America

BM Popkin, T Reardon - Obesity Reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Summary The Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region faces a major diet‐related
health problem accompanied by enormous economic and social costs. The shifts in diet are …

[HTML][HTML] Nutrition-sensitive agriculture: what have we learned so far?

MT Ruel, AR Quisumbing, M Balagamwala - Global food security, 2018 - Elsevier
A growing number of governments, donor agencies, and development organizations are
committed to supporting nutrition-sensitive agriculture (NSA) to achieve their development …

[HTML][HTML] Gene–environment interactions and their impact on human health

SJ Virolainen, A VonHandorf, KCMF Viel… - Genes & …, 2023 - nature.com
The molecular processes underlying human health and disease are highly complex. Often,
genetic and environmental factors contribute to a given disease or phenotype in a non …

[HTML][HTML] The importance of food systems and the environment for nutrition

J Fanzo, AL Bellows, ML Spiker… - The American Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Global and local food system transformation is necessary in order to ensure the delivery of
healthy, safe, and nutritious foods in both sustainable and equitable ways. Food systems are …

Rapid transformation of food systems in developing regions: Highlighting the role of agricultural research & innovations

T Reardon, R Echeverria, J Berdegué, B Minten… - Agricultural systems, 2019 - Elsevier
Developing regions' food system has transformed rapidly in the past several decades. The
food system is the dendritic cluster of R&D value chains, and the value chains linking input …

Food consumption and its impact on cardiovascular disease: importance of solutions focused on the globalized food system: a report from the workshop convened by …

SS Anand, C Hawkes, RJ De Souza, A Mente… - Journal of the American …, 2015 - jacc.org
Major scholars in the field, on the basis of a 3-day consensus, created an in-depth review of
current knowledge on the role of diet in cardiovascular disease (CVD), the changing global …