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Developing countries are experiencing changes in nutrition that have already occurred in affluent nations. Large segments of populations display underweight or overweight within a single country. In Vietnam, overweight is emerging primarily in the urban affluent population and may be associated with increased risk for coronary heart disease. See the paper by Hanh et al. (pp. 616-622). Detail from a fresco of a bureaucrat and his scribe in the Grotto of Nhoi at Tranh Hoa, Vietnam, probably eighteenth century.

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