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Diet and diseases of affluence

Qualitas Plantarum Plant Foods for Human Nutrition, 1977
‘A number of the most common diseases in Western society are rare and in some instances almost unknown in communities minimally influenced by modern Western culture. The dietary change most consistently associated with increased prevalence of these diseases is a reduction in the amount of dietary fibre consumed.
D. P. Burkitt
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Diseases of Affluence

, 2006
Kevin White
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Urbanization and the spread of diseases of affluence in China [PDF]

Economics & Human Biology, 2009
We quantify, track and explain the distribution of overweight and of hypertension across Chinese provinces differentiated by their degree of urbanicity over the period 1991-2004. We construct an index of urbanicity from longitudinal data on community characteristics from the China Health and Nutrition Survey and compute, for the first time, a rank ...
Van de Poel, E, O'Donnell, O, van Doorslaer, E   +2 more
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Diet and the diseases of affluence

, 2002

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Are the Rich More Likely to Have Diseases of Affluence?

Iryo To Shakai, 2012
Yoshiharu Fukuda
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‘Coronary’ Heart Disease - A Disease of Affluence or a Disease of Industry?

Mel Bartley
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Incidence of juvenile-onset Crohn’s disease in Scotland: Association with northern latitude and affluence

Gastroenterology, 2004
The incidence of Crohn's disease in Scottish children has increased steadily over 30 years. Many studies have investigated genetic influence or possible links with childhood events. We aimed to study sociodemographic and/or geographic distribution of juvenile=onset Crohn's disease in Scotland.Using a previously established and validated database ...
Emma Louise Armitage, Marian C. Aldhous, Niall Anderson, Hazel E. Drummond, Rudolph A. Riemersma, Subrata Ghosh, Jack Satsangi   +6 more
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Mapping of inflammatory bowel disease in northern France: Spatial variations and relation to affluence

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, 2010
Geographic variations in the incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) may reflect variations in the distribution of environmental etiologic factors. We assessed spatial variation in the incidence of IBD in northern France and analyzed its association with a deprivation index.All cases of IBD included in the EPIMAD registry between 1990 and 2003 ...
Christophe, Declercq, Corinne, Gower-Rousseau, Gwénola, Vernier-Massouille, Julia, Salleron, Mamadou, Baldé, Gilles, Poirier, Eric, Lerebours, Jean Louis, Dupas, Véronique, Merle, Raymond, Marti, Alain, Duhamel, Antoine, Cortot, Jean-Louis, Salomez, Jean-Frédéric, Colombel   +13 more
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Is ADHD a disease of affluence? A local authority experience in north-west of england

Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2011
Aim The relationship between social class and ADHD is unclear. We sought to investigate possible effects of social deprivation on ADHD prevalence in Liverpool area. Method 1069 children from all areas of Liverpool in the North West region of England diagnosed with ADHD based on DSM-IV standards were studied.
M. O. Ogundele, R. De Doysa
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Dietary Fibre and the Diseases of Affluence

1988
Although the traditional “balanced” diet has always included some “roughage” to prevent constipation [1] the widespread acceptance of the need to include a recommendation for dietary fibre to protect against a range of diseases prevalent in Western developed countries is a relatively recent phenomenon [2,3] which can be said to date from the early ...
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