ReviewNutrients2011
The nutrition transition in Africa: can it be steered into a more positive direction?
Review in Nutrients, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 86 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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86 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Dietary behaviours in the context of nutrition transition: a systematic review and meta-analyses in two African countries.Public health nutrition · 2020Pooled it
- Dietary Sources of Salt in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Pooled it
- Childhood Obesity Prevention in Africa: A Systematic Review of Intervention Effectiveness and Implementation.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Pooled it
- The Double Burden of Undernutrition and Overnutrition in Developing Countries: an Update.Current obesity reports · 2015Pooled it
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- Adolescents' perspectives on socio-cultural influences on overweight and obesity in African countries: a systematic scoping review of qualitative studies.Current obesity reports · 2026Article
- A Theology of Health: Exploring the Ethiopian Orthodox Church's Influence on Human Well-Being in Ethiopia.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- Assessing the implementation of public policies aimed at addressing the double burden of nutrition in Burundi: perspectives and recommendations.BMC nutrition · 2026Article
- Colorectal cancer incidence and survival trends in Uganda: a population-based registry analysis (2000-20).International journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Social and physical environmental correlates of movement behaviors, body weight status, and well-being among adolescents in Nigeria: a youth-centered participatory action project narrative review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2026Review
- Vitamin A intake and status and associations with iron status, anaemia and birth outcomes of pregnant women in the Free State Province, South Africa: the Nutritional Status of Expectant Mothers and their newborn Infants (NuEMI) study.The British journal of nutrition · 2026Article
- Spatial Epidemiology of the Ischemic Heart Disease-Asthma Comorbidity: A Global Analysis of Burden Patterns, Risk Drivers, and a Composite Risk Index.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2026Article
- Demographic and socio-economic predictors of physical activity among young adults in Lephalale, Limpopo Province, South Africa.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Sub-Saharan African Immigrants Living in the United States Maintain Healthy Diets Despite Dietary Acculturation: A Scoping Review.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2025Article
- Non-Communicable Disease Burden and Dietary Determinants in Women of Reproductive Age in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Nourishing Beginnings: A Community-Based Participatory Research Approach to Food Security and Healthy Diets for the "Forgotten" Pre-School Children in South Africa.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Diet and sociodemographic predictors of the double burden of malnutrition in urban Zimbabwe.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2025Article
- Ensuring Africa's Food Security by 2050: The Role of Population Growth, Climate-Resilient Strategies, and Putative Pathways to Resilience.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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- Consumption frequency of ultra-processed foods and beverages among 6- to 36-month-olds in Kampala, Uganda.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Article
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Abstract
The objective of this narrative review is to examine the nutrition transition and its consequences when populations in Africa modernize as a result of socio-economic development, urbanization, and acculturation. The focus is on the changes in dietary patterns and nutrient intakes during the nutrition transition, the determinants and consequences of these changes as well as possible new approaches in public health nutrition policies, interventions and research needed to steer the nutrition transition into a more positive direction in Africa. The review indicates that non-communicable, nutrition-related diseases have emerged in sub-Saharan Africa at a faster rate and at a lower economic level than in industrialized countries, before the battle against under-nutrition has been won. There is a putative epigenetic link between under- and over-nutrition, explaining the double burden of nutrition-related diseases in Africa. It is concluded that it is possible to steer the nutrition transition into a more positive direction, provided that some basic principles in planning public health promotion strategies, policies and interventions are followed. It is suggested that sub-Saharan African countries join forces to study the nutrition transition and implemented interventions on epidemiological, clinical and molecular (genetic) level for better prevention of both under- and over-nutrition.
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