understood about the role of global

understood about the role of globalization. Urbanization is accompanied by shifts in a broad array of
elements such as access to mass media, modern technologies related to work and leisure and
transportation, and enhanced access to a variety of foods across all seasons of the year, inter alia. Many
of these changes may be attributable as well to the increased flow of goods, services, and information
associated with globalization. Increased globalization may bring shifts in occupational structures as
industries develop and expand in response to world markets; greater access to international mass media
programming; and enhanced access to non-traditional foods as a result of changing prices and
production practices as well as trade. Because of the multiple shared paths through which urbanization
and globalization may influence food availability and choices in developing countries, it is difficult to
unravel effects of the two sets of forces on diet and health.