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Obesity
Research from X.Y. Zhang and co-researchers yields new findings on obesity
April 1st, 2008
"This paper combines two of today's most salient phenomena in contemporary China: the remarkable rise of China as a consumer society and the related mounting overweight epidemic, which now includes about 200 million overweight people. Relatively little is understood about the many factors which contribute to the expanding waistlines of the Chinese," scientists in The Hague, Netherlands report. "Within the nutrition transition framework, this paper concentrates on food consumption with a special focus on the adoption of energy-rich high calorie diets. Four consumer segments have been identified according to consumption of various food products - i.e., the food...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-04-01)
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