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Abstract
People around the world are shifting away from diets of mostly staple foods and are eating more processed food and meals away from home that can be high in salt, fat, and sugar. For instance, USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) reported in 2017 that as incomes rose in developing regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa, people tended to consume more processed foods. This change in eating habits is known as nutrition transition. Combined with more sedentary lifestyles, nutrition transition can lead countries to experience the “double burden of malnutrition.” That is, obesity and under-nutrition may occur at the same time