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Japan's dietary transition and its impacts / Vaclav Smil and Kazuhiko Kobayashi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smil, Vaclav.
- Series:
- Food, health, and the environment.
- Food, health, and the environment
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diet--Japan--Longitudinal studies.
- Diet.
- Food habits--Japan--Longitudinal studies.
- Food habits.
- Diet--Health aspects--Japan.
- Food consumption forecasting--Japan.
- Food consumption forecasting.
- Agricultural ecology--Japan.
- Agricultural ecology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-30446-5
- 1-283-58720-3
- 9786613899651
- 0-262-30538-0
- OCLC:
- 810931648
- Publisher Number:
- 9786613899651
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