The nutrition transition in Egypt: obesity, undernutrition and the food consumption context
Open Access
- 1 February 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Public Health Nutrition
- Vol. 5 (1a), 141-148
- https://doi.org/10.1079/phn2001286
Abstract
Objectives: To describe changing food consumption patterns in Egypt over the last several decades, current levels of overweight and obesity, and current data on obesity-related morbidity.Keywords
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