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Author Smil, Vaclav.

Title Japan's dietary transition and its impacts / Vaclav Smil and Kazuhiko Kobayashi
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 229 pages) : illustrations
Series Food, health, and the environment
Food, health, and the environment.
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
Summary 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
Analysis ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy
ENVIRONMENT/Food Studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Diet -- Japan -- Longitudinal studies
Food habits -- Japan -- Longitudinal studies
Diet -- Health aspects -- Japan
Food consumption forecasting -- Japan
Agricultural ecology -- Japan
COOKING -- Health & Healing -- General.
COOKING -- Health & Healing -- Weight Control.
COOKING -- Specific Ingredients -- Natural Foods.
HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan.
Agricultural ecology
Diet
Diet -- Health aspects
Food consumption forecasting
Food habits
Japan
Genre/Form Longitudinal studies
Form Electronic book
Author Kobayashi, Kazuhiko, 1946-
ISBN 9780262305389
0262305380
1283587203
9781283587204