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1. Dietary change, noncommunicable disease and local knowledge: results of a small-scale study of the views of older Malawians [version 1; referees: 3 approved]

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Megan Vaughan, Albert Dube, Hazel Namadingo, Amelia Crampin, Levie Gondwe, Green Kapira, Joyce Mbughi, and Maisha Nyasulu

Subjects
Medicine, Science
Abstract

Interviews were conducted with a small group of Malawians over the age of 60 in rural Karonga district and in Area 25 of the capital, Lilongwe. We asked their views on the changes in diet that had taken place over their lifetimes and also on the causes of 'noncommunicable' diseases, such as Type 2 diabetes and hypertension in their communities. Their answers generally confirmed research showing that dietary diversity is decreasing in Malawi, but many of our interviewees also recalled that hunger was more frequently experienced in the past. Our interviews revealed that though the essential rural diet based on either maize or cassava appears superficially largely unchanged, there have been significant changes in the varieties of crops grown, methods of production and food processing. Many of our interviewees were concerned that the application of chemical fertiliser and pesticides was harming their health.

Published
2018
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2. Dietary change, noncommunicable disease and local knowledge: results of a small-scale study of the views of older Malawians

Author

Hazel Namadingo, Maisha Nyasulu, Amelia C. Crampin, Albert Dube, Joyce Mbughi, Megan Vaughan, Green Kapira, and Levie Gondwe

Subjects
2. Zero hunger, Malawi, business.industry, 050204 development studies, 05 social sciences, Dietary diversity, Medicine (miscellaneous), Articles, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, Research Note, 0302 clinical medicine, Geography, nutrition, Noncommunicable disease, Agriculture, Scale (social sciences), 0502 economics and business, Food processing, 030212 general & internal medicine, Dietary change, NCDs, Socioeconomics, business, agriculture
Abstract

Interviews were conducted with a small group of Malawians over the age of 60 in rural Karonga district and in Area 25 of the capital, Lilongwe. We asked their views on the changes in diet that had taken place over their lifetimes and also on the causes of 'noncommunicable' diseases, such as Type 2 diabetes and hypertension in their communities. Their answers generally confirmed research showing that dietary diversity is decreasing in Malawi, but many of our interviewees also recalled that hunger was more frequently experienced in the past. Our interviews revealed that though the essential rural diet based on either maize or cassava appears superficially largely unchanged, there have been significant changes in the varieties of crops grown, methods of production and food processing. Many of our interviewees were concerned that the application of chemical fertiliser and pesticides was harming their health.

Published
2018

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