Welcome to Nestlé Nutrition Institute Africa
|
Webinars |
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
CPD Activities |
||
|
The nutrition transition relates to broad patterns of diet, activity and body composition that have defined our nutritional status in various stages of history. The world is rapidly shifting from a dietary period in which the higher-income countries were dominated by patterns of nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases (NR-NCD’s) (while the lower and middle world were dominated by receding famine) to one in which the world is increasingly being dominated by NR-NCD’s. Dietary changes appear to be ... Epidemiology Of The Nutrition Transition: Regional Case Study From Africa Africa is the final continent to be affected by the nutrition transition and, as elsewhere, is characterised by the paradoxical coexistence of malnutrition and obesity. Several features of the obesity epidemic in Africa mirror those in other emerging nations: it penetrates the richer nations and urban areas first with a strong urban-rural gradient; initially it affects the wealthy, but later there is a demographic switch as obesity becomes a condit ion more associated with poverty; and it shares many of the same drivers related to the increasing affordability of highly-refined oils and carbohydrates, and a move away from subsistence farmwork and towards sedentary lifestyles. The closing date for this month’s CPD Activities is the |
Pediatric program - 
