Editing Cocacolonization (section)

=== Health factors ===
Medical experts use the term cocacolonization in their medical journals representing the spread of unhealthy American foods overseas.<ref name=":8" />

A significant shift in nutrition has occurred. Developed nations export processed foods that are high in [[trans fats]] and refined [[sugar]] to developing nations, causing a change from previous methods of survival such as hunting and gathering.<ref name=":8"/>

Cocacolonization has been linked to the spike in [[Type 2 diabetes]], obesity, and increased risk for cardiovascular diseases because of the connection between economic situation and low costs of high fat, high sugar foods.<ref name=":8" />

Due to an increase in tourism in their area, the Mayan tribe in the [[Yucatán Peninsula]] experienced a decline in health because they were introduced to unhealthy American foods. They became increasingly dependent on the foods.<ref name=":6" /> Similarly, the Tz'utujill tribe in Guatemala was also introduced to the same food and encountered the same decline in health.<ref name=":7" /> Worldwide, type 2 diabetes spread and steadily increased over the next 20 years. The explanation for their decline in health was cocacolonization.<ref name=":8" />