Dietary Transitions and Health Outcomes in Four Populations - Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and cancer were rare among non-western populations with traditional diets and lifestyles. As populations transitioned toward industrialized diets and lifestyles, NCDs developed.

Objective

We performed a systematic literature review to examine the effects of diet and lifestyle transitions on NCDs.

Evidence review

We identified 22 populations that underwent a nutrition transition, eleven of which had sufficient data. Of these, we chose four populations with diverse geographies, diets and lifestyles who underwent a dietary and lifestyle transition and explored the relationship between dietary changes and health outcomes. We excluded populations with features overlapping w

SUBMITTER: Pressler M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8892920 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature