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Central America in Transition: From Maize to Wheat Challenges and Opportunities.
Nutrients - 26 Aug 2015
Peña Amado Salvador, Crusius Jakob Bart Arie
Abstract excerpt
The Central American countries: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama are in transition from a dietary culture based mainly on maize to a wheat-containing diet. Several other changes are occurring, such as a decrease of parasitic and infectious diseases. The environmental changes permit a prediction of an increase of celiac disease and other autoimmune diseases such as type I...
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