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Framing the Latin American nutrition transition in a historical perspective, 1850 to the present

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ID3074656
AuthorsJonathan D Ablard (0000-0002-5876-7680, Ithaca College, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume28
Issue1
Pages233-253
Publication date2021-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistória Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0104-5970 • E-ISSN: 1678-4758
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0104-59702021000100012
PMID33787703
OpenAlexW3141857032
SCIELO_PIDS0104-59702021000100233
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited46

This paper argues that many of the foundations and trends that led to the rise in obesity and other diet-related health problems in Latin America began to develop in the late nineteenth century. The tendency towards presentism in the nutrition transition literature provides a much abbreviated and limited history of changes in diet and weight. Whereas medical and nutrition researchers have tended to emphasize the recent onset of the crisis, a historical perspective suggests that increasingly global food sourcing prompted changes in foodways and a gradual "fattening" of Latin America. This paper also provides a methodological and historiographic exploration of how to historicize the nutrition transition, drawing on a diverse array of sources from pre-1980 to the present

Art · Foodways · Framing (construction) · Latin Americans · Nutrition transition · Obesity · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Presentism · Sociology · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · History · Law · Medicine · Obesity and Health Practices

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Unique citing works4
Citations per year0,8
Citation span2021 - 2026 (6)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 3
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