What is driving global obesity trends? Globalization or "modernization"?
Ashley FoxWenhui FengVictor AsalPublished in: Globalization and health (2019)
Global increases in overweight/obesity appear to be driven more by domestic processes including economic development, urbanization and women's empowerment, and are less clearly negatively impacted by external globalization processes suggesting that the harms to health from global trade regimes may be overstated.