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Zusatztext "This book represents a well organized and edited report of the Sixth Annual Public Health Forum..." (European Journal of Public Health! Vol. 9! No. 1! 1999) Informationen zum Autor Prakash S. Shetty and Klim McPherson are the authors of Diet, Nutrition & Chronic Disease: Lessons from Contrasting Worlds, published by Wiley. Klappentext With the rapid increase in the world's population, and the improvements in health and longevity, the demographic profile is altering and resulting in changes in the patterns of nutritional problems. There is a global epidemic of diet-related non-communicable diseases and, until now, industrialised countries have largely borne the brunt of it. In the last thirty years, however, there have been large increases in the mortality rates from diet-related chronic diseases, both in Eastern Europe and in rapidly developing countries in transition. Diet, Nutrition and Chronic Disease: Lessons from Contrasting Worlds is the sixth of a series of annual public health forums organised by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. It summarises the current state of the art of our understanding of the problem of non-communicable diseases and their primary prevention, and aims to:* Increase international awareness of the global burden of non-communicable diseases and in particular to highlight the trends in developing countries.* Evaluate the impact of changes in diet, nutrition and lifestyle that predispose to chronic non-communicable diseases in modern societies.* Share knowledge of the growing problems of non-communicable diseases and experiences related to its prevention between health professionals of developing and developed countries.* Identify and prioritise major research issues and suggest strategies to deal with the global epidemic of chronic non-communicable diseases.This book is an invaluable volume for public health professionals and nutritionists, health and nutrition policy makers and researchers, national governments and international agencies concerned with population health and nutrition. Zusammenfassung This book summarises the current state of the art of our understanding of the problem of non-communicable diseases and their primary prevention. Inhaltsverzeichnis Aus dem Inhalt: 1. Overview of Diet-Related Non-Communicable Diseases: Global Overview of Diet-Related Non-Communicable Diseases; Status Reports on Diet-Related Non-Communicable Disease in Developing Countries in Rapid Transition; South and South East Asia; China; Caribbean and Latin America; Arab States; 2. Prenatal and Life Cycle Influences on Later Life Diseases; 3. Migrants and Non-Communicable Disease; 4. Inequalities in Diet and Health 5. Dietary Fats and Non-Communicable Diseases; 6. Diet and Large Bowel Cancer 7. Interactions Between Diet and Hormones: Possible Role in Breast Cancer Aetiology 8. Alcohol and Chronic Disease: Moderate Drinking is Best? 9. Public Health Impact of Globalisation of Food Trade 10. Effective Intervention Strategies? 11. The Burgeoning Problem of Global Obesity: Introduction; Appetite, Food Intake and Human Obesity; The Problem of Obesity and its Management; Obesity and its Relation to Other Chronic Disease; New Directions in Obesity Research; 12. Workshop Reports; Diet in Early Life and Chronic Disease; Dietary Chemoprevention of Cancer; Vegetarianism and Chronic Disease; Public Health Initiatives in Obesity; Diet and Blood Pressure; 13. Lessons from Contrasting Worlds; 14. Where Do We Go From Here?....
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Aus dem Inhalt:
1. Overview of Diet-Related Non-Communicable Diseases: Global Overview of Diet-Related Non-Communicable Diseases; Status Reports on Diet-Related Non-Communicable Disease in Developing Countries in Rapid Transition; South and South East Asia; China; Caribbean and Latin America; Arab States; 2. Prenatal and Life Cycle Influences on Later Life Diseases; 3. Migrants and Non-Communicable Disease; 4. Inequalities in Diet and Health 5. Dietary Fats and Non-Communicable Diseases; 6. Diet and Large Bowel Cancer 7. Interactions Between Diet and Hormones: Possible Role in Breast Cancer Aetiology 8. Alcohol and Chronic Disease: Moderate Drinking is Best? 9. Public Health Impact of Globalisation of Food Trade 10. Effective Intervention Strategies? 11. The Burgeoning Problem of Global Obesity: Introduction; Appetite, Food Intake and Human Obesity; The Problem of Obesity and its Management; Obesity and its Relation to Other Chronic Disease; New Directions in Obesity Research; 12. Workshop Reports; Diet in Early Life and Chronic Disease; Dietary Chemoprevention of Cancer; Vegetarianism and Chronic Disease; Public Health Initiatives in Obesity; Diet and Blood Pressure; 13. Lessons from Contrasting Worlds; 14. Where Do We Go From Here?.
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"This book represents a well organized and edited report of the Sixth Annual Public Health Forum.... Surely, [the Forum] and this book...borrowing a sentence from the preface, have 'given a significant contribution to the...acceleration of action that is required to counter and reverse...diet-related NCD.'" (European Journal of Public Health, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1999)
