FOOD TRANSITION AMONG TRIBAL AND GLOBALIZATION WITH REFERENCE TO ARUNACHAL PRADESH

Abstract

With the advent of globalization, one of the most visible impacts of it can be seen in food practice of indigenous tribes; tremendously transition of traditional food taking place. The changes have its own merit and demerit aspect. Firstly, it has improved the food security of the tribal people on the other hand, due to food transition and lifestyle new health problem has been experiencing by the tribal people. Further, traditional food such as smoked meat aggravates the chronic diseases. The result shows that 42.8 percent of the respondents consume smoke meat 2or 3 times in weeks and 54.4 percent of the respondents take traditional dish almost daily, which is exceeding the recommended quantity