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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461970103321

Autore

Smil Vaclav

Titolo

Japan's dietary transition and its impacts [[electronic resource] /] / Vaclav Smil and Kazuhiko Kobayashi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Masa., : MIT Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-58720-3

9786613899651

0-262-30538-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Collana

Food, health, and the environment

Altri autori (Persone)

KobayashiKazuhiko <1946->

Disciplina

641.5/630952

Soggetti

Agricultural ecology - Japan

Diet - Health aspects - Japan

Diet - Japan

Food consumption forecasting - Japan

Food habits - Japan

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.