Edited by Norman J. Temple and Denis P. Burkitt. 453 pp. Totowa, N.J., Humana Press, 1994. $49.50. ISBN 0-89603-264-7.
The hypothesis that several diseases that are frequent in NorthAmerica, northern Europe, and most of Oceania, but rather infrequentin the rest of the world, may have common etiologic componentsin the diets of the various populations was advanced by severalvisionary physicians and surgeons long before nutritional epidemiologybecame the mainstream discipline it is today. Notable and particularlyinfluential among these pioneers was the late Denis Burkitt,coeditor of this book, who coined the term "Western diseases."In a series of articles and books in the 1960s and 1970s, Burkittargued eloquently that modern Western dietary habits —. . . [Full Text of this Article]
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