Japan's Dietary Transition and Its Impacts.
Title:
Japan's Dietary Transition and Its Impacts.
Author:
Smil, Vaclav.
ISBN:
9780262305389
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (245 pages)
Series:
Food, Health, and the Environment
Contents:
Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 Japanese Diet, 1900 - 2010: From Subsistence to Affluence -- 2 Old and New Foodstuffs: A Century of Transitions -- 3 Food Consumption: Continuity and Change -- 4 Diets and Well-being: Health and Longevity -- 5 Environmental Impacts: Land, Water, Nitrogen, and Ocean -- 6 Japanese Diet: Retrospect and Prospect -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
An examination of the transformation of the Japanese diet from subsistence to abundance and an assessment of the consequences for health, longevity, and the environment.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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