fh.1.2 The nutrition transition
Content
- Geographic inquiry and concept(s)
- Ways of measuring disparities in food and health between places
- Geographic knowledge and understanding
- The nutrition transition, and associated regional variations of food consumption and nutrition choices
- Case study or detailed examples
- Neither required by the syllabus
- Aims of this lesson
- To have knowledge of what the nutrition transition is.
- To have knowledge and understanding of the regional variations in food consumption.
- To have knowledge and understanding of the regional variations in nutrition choices.
Base knowledge and understanding
News article
Key terms
- Nutrition transition
- A model used to describe the shifts in diets, physical activity and causes of disease that accompany changes in economic development, lifestyle, urbanisation, and demography. It most commonly is used to refer to the change from traditional diets towards “Western” diets rich in fats, sugars, meat and highly processed foods and low in fibre, and accompanied by a rise in sedentary lifestyles.
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Review
- Outline what is meant by the nutrition transition. [2]
- Explain two ways in which the nutrition transition leads to regional variations in food consumption. [4]
- Examine the relationship between the nutrition transition and changing patterns of disease at different scales. [10]