The spread of Western eating habits around the world is bad for human health and the environment. These findings come from a new report in the journal Nature.
David Tilman, a professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota, America, examined information from 100 countries (identify) what people ate and diet affected health. He noted a movement beginning in the 1960s. He found that as nations industrialized (工业化) , the population increased and earnings rose, more people began to look on the Western diet as (they) daily diet.
The Western diet is high in sugar, fat, oil meat. By (cat) these foods, people began to get fatter and sicker. David Tilman says overweight people arc at (great) risk of non — infectious diseases like diabetes (糖尿病) and heart disease.
(unfortunate) when people adopt this Western diet, they are going to have these health problems, especially in developing countries in Asia. China is example where the number of diabetes (caw) has been jumping from less than one per cent to 10 per cent of the population as they began to industrialize over a 20-year period. And that (happen) all across the world, in Mexico, in Nigeria and so on.
