The latter appears as the consequence of food globalization and industrialization which translated into an increase in the consumption of added sugar in foods.
Although healthier diet recommendations have been advocated, western style diet is highly adopted in many countries, owing to its palatability and food globalization.
Indeed, with industrialization of food, globalization of trade, advertising and marketing of agro-food industries, urban dwellers are increasingly exposed to massive imports of manufactured food products (5).
As it relates to the food system, globalization includes the redefinition of 'market' from local to global and changes in power and focus of food governance, culture and ideology [ 73- 76] giving rise to a situation where it has become cost-effective to consume foods which contribute to unhealthy eating behaviours [ 77].
The problem is that, without a strong national cuisine, Britain may be particularly susceptible to what you might call the food of globalization — all kinds of ingredients from different parts of the world thrown together without any governing culinary principles.
José Bové, the French sheep farmer and much-publicized enemy of junk food and globalization, was ordered to serve 10 months in prison for damaging fields of genetically modified rice in 1998.
This reflects a significant change in diet habits and physical activity levels worldwide as a result of industrialization, urbanization, economic development and increased food market globalization [ 1].
Also, food market globalization paralleled with urbanization has facilitated dietary changes that have increased the daily intake of nutritionally poor but energy-dense and excessively salty foods in this country, in the same way as seen in quite a few middle and low-income countries [ 46, 47].
Africa's chronic disease burden has been strongly attributed to changing behavioural practices (e.g sedentary lifestyles and diets high in saturated fat, salt and sugar), which are linked to structural factors such as industrialization, urbanization and increasing food market globalization [ 1- 4].
Moreover, by radically altering the nature of agri-food systems, globalization is also altering the quantity, type, cost and desirability of foods available for consumption.
Despite all the success that McDonald's has had overseas -- and that success has been impressive, analysts and investors said -- its stores have been vandalized repeatedly by people angry about everything from genetically modified foods to globalization to United States foreign policy.
