Globalization of Western Food Culture: Impact on Obesity and Food Insecurity
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (9 February 2019) | Viewed by 13261
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Dear Colleagues,
We are organizing a Special Issue on “Globalization of Western Food Culture: Impact on Obesity and Food Insecurity” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The venue is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes articles and communications in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. For detailed information on the journal, we refer you to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.
One of the most profound results of globalization has been the rapid rise in the number of Western-style fast food outlets, brands and marketing around the world. The world’s largest fast food restaurant company, Yum! Brands Inc., operates nearly 38,000 restaurants (including KFC and Pizza Hut) around the world in more than 110 countries and territories, with over 4650 fast food outlets in China alone. Globally, there are more than 33,000 McDonald’s outlets in 119 countries and territories, serving around 68 million customers daily. In parallel with the increasing consumption of fast food, processed food and soft drinks around the world, obesity and type 2 diabetes have become global problems, afflicting countries wealthy and poor.
The concurrent spread of Western-style fast food and the epidemic of cardio-metabolic related diseases have raised an important public health question: To what extent does the increased consumption of Western-style fast food contribute to cardio-metabolic diseases, disrupt local food culture, add new burdens to health care delivery systems, create new jobs and economic opportunity, and impact food insecurity?
We are inviting academics, food industry researchers and higher degree students conducting research on food and nutrition insecurity in developed countries to submit abstracts for consideration in this Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
We especially welcome multi-disciplinary research in the area of food and nutrition security, both quantitative and qualitative including, but not limited to, the following areas:
- Agro-industrialization, Globalization, and International Development
- Behavioral Interventions
- Body Weight and Body Image
- Community-Based Interventions
- Country Case Studies
- Culture and Global Food System
- Diffusion of Fast Food Outlets Worldwide
- Economic Development Policy
- Employment, Poverty, and the Natural Environment
- Fast Food vs. Consumption of Low-Energy, Nutrient-Dense Foods
- Food Subsidy Policy
- Globalization Effects on Agricultural food systems
- Impact of Marketing Practices on Consumer Food Patterns
- Local Food Culture
- Neighborhood Exposure to Supermarkets and Fast Food Outlets
- Role of Social Media
Prof. Dr. Alice S. Ammerman
Prof. Dr. Stephen B. Thomas
Prof. Dr. Robert T. Jackson
Mr. David Yates
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Obesity
- Food insecurity
- Cardiometabolic disease
- Western fast food
- Processed food
- Food culture
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