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Japan's dietary transition and its impacts / Vaclav Smil and Kazuhiko Kobayashi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smil, Vaclav, author.
- Series:
- 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.
- Diet--Health aspects.
- Longitudinal method.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 229 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2012]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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:
- 1 Japanese Diet, 1900-2010: From Subsistence to Affluence 1
- 2 Old and New Foodstuffs: A Century of Transitions 7
- 3 Food Consumption: Continuity and Change 71
- 4 Diets and Well-being: Health and Longevity 109
- 5 Environmental Impacts: Land, Water, Nitrogen, and Ocean 131
- 6 Japanese Diet: Retrospect and Prospect 191.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262305389
- 0262305380
- 1283587203
- 9781283587204
- OCLC:
- 810931648
- Publisher Number:
- 9786613899651
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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