“During the past decade, rapid expansion in a number of relevant
scientific fields and, in particular, in the amount of population-based
epidemiological evidence has helped to clarify the role of diet in
preventing and controlling morbidity and premature mortality resulting
from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Some of the specific dietary
components that increase the probability of occurrence of these diseases
in individuals, and interventions to modify their impact, have also been
identified.
Furthermore, rapid changes in diets and lifestyles that have occurred
with industrialization, urbanization, economic development and market
globalization, have accelerated over the past decade.“