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Nutrition transition

Nutrition transition
2010. Merida, Yucatan (Mexico). Photography: Inês Varela-Silva © Inês Varela-Silva
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Nutrition transition

The switch from traditional diets (high-fibre, low-fat, and low-calorie foods) to globalized diets (low-fibre, high-fat, high-calorie foods) is happening in the Yucatan. Fast food chains are changing the dietary patterns of the populations and partially contributing for the increase in the obesity epidemic. [Inês Varela-Silva]