In contrast, diseases of affluence like cancer and heart disease are common throughout the United States.

Those with higher cholesterol levels are prone to the diseases of affluence - cancer, heart disease and diabetes."

Further, we know that simply by moving to America, people from nations with low rates of these "diseases of affluence" will quickly acquire them.

The diseases of affluence are non-infectious diseases with environmental causes.

Diseases of affluence are diseases thought to be a result of increasing wealth.

Increasingly, research is finding that diseases thought to be diseases of affluence also appear in large part in the poor.

This change makes present humans vulnerable to a number of health problems, termed "diseases of civilization" and "diseases of affluence".

However, with many blockbusters targeting diseases of affluence, such as cholesterol-lowering drugs, is the Aids epidemic sweeping the developing world being side-lined by drug developers?

Diseases of affluence are predicted to become more prevalent in developing countries as diseases of poverty decline, longevity increases, and lifestyles change.

Critics further contend that food energy excess, rather than the consumption of specific novel foods, such as grains and dairy products, underlies the diseases of affluence.

Diseases of affluence is a term sometimes given to selected diseases and other health conditions which are commonly thought to be a result of increasing wealth in a society.

The book attributes the "diseases of affluence", to the so-called "Western Diet" of processed meats and food products, and offers its rules as a remedy to the problem.

Frequent and regular physical exercise boosts the immune system, and helps prevent the "diseases of affluence" such as heart disease, cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and obesity.

Those Chinese who eat the most protein, and especially the most animal protein, also have the highest rates of the "diseases of affluence" like heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

Such an analysis might dispel prejudices about the "diseases of affluence" and stimulate policy approaches and research that appropriately target emerging risk groups across the globe, regardless of socioeconomic status.

Social critic Jeremy Rifkin states, "Back in the agriculture-based society, people were more attuned to generatively [20], and middle-stress disorders and diseases of affluence were not part of life.

While the diseases of affluence and overnourishment cited in the journal report occur among vegetarians and nonvegetarians alike, "they occur at lower rates among those who eat fewer animal products," the editorial writers noted.

As a result of the Industrial Revolution, there arose a perception that members of the middle classes were suffering from various "diseases of affluence" that were partially attributed to their increasingly sedentary lifestyles.

Diseases of poverty are diseases that are associated with poverty and low social status; diseases of affluence are diseases that are associated with high social and economic status.

The main diseases and health conditions prioritized by global health initiatives are sometimes grouped under the terms "diseases of poverty" versus "diseases of affluence", although the impacts of globalization are increasingly blurring any such distinction.

Even some authors who may otherwise appear to be critical of the concept of Paleolithic diet have argued that high energy density of modern diets, as compared to ancestral/primate diets, contributes to the rate of diseases of affluence in the industrial world.

In response to this argument, advocates of the paleodiet state that while Paleolithic hunter-gatherers did have a short average life expectancy, modern human populations with lifestyles resembling that of our preagricultural ancestors have little or no diseases of affluence, despite sufficient numbers of elderly.

In an accompanying editorial, Dr. Randall White, a psychiatrist in Atlanta, and Suzanne Havala, a registered dietitian, said "the money we spend to treat these conditions, often called diseases of affluence or overnourishment, could help meet the basic health care needs of those currently uninsured."