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A new dietary pattern appears to be emerging as a result of changes in diet, evidently associated with the desire to prevent or delay degenerative diseases and prolong health. These changes, which are instituted in some countries by consumers and in others by government policy, may be found to constitute a large-scale transition in dietary structure and body composition. 10-12 If such a new dietary pattern takes hold, it may be very important in enhancing successful aging, i.e., postponing infirmity and increasing the disability-free life span. 13, 14 Our focus is increasingly on patterns 3, 4, and 5, in particular on the rapid shift in much of the world's low- and moderate-income countries from the stage of receding famine to NR-NCD. Figure 2 presents this focus. The concern about this period is so great that the term the nutrition transition is synonymous, for many, with the shift from Pattern 3 to 4.

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