The Economic Cost of Diet and Its Association with Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in a Cohort of Spanish Primary Schoolchildren
| Autor: | Rosario Pastor, Josep A. Tur, Noemi Pinilla |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Mediterranean diet monetary cost 030309 nutrition & dietetics Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Food prices humanos lcsh:Medicine Mediterranean Adequacy Index Nutritional quality Diet Mediterranean Article 03 medical and health sciences Eating 0302 clinical medicine Economic cost Surveys and Questionnaires Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Child health care economics and organizations 0303 health sciences conducta alimentaria business.industry dieta lcsh:R Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Area under the curve Feeding Behavior diet quality Dietary pattern Diet Cross-Sectional Studies Food Spain Cohort Christian ministry Female ingestión de alimentos business Demography estudios transversales |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 1282, p 1282 (2021) Volume 18 Issue 3 |
| Popis: | Background: Adoption of a certain dietary pattern is determined by different factors such as taste, cost, convenience, and nutritional value of food. Objective: To assess the association between the daily cost of a diet and its overall quality in a cohort of 6–12-year-old Spanish schoolchildren. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted on a cohort (n = 130 47% female) of 6–12-year-old children schooled in primary education in the central region of Spain. Three-day 24 h records were administered, and the nutritional quality of the diet was also determined by means of Mediterranean Adequacy Index (MAI). A questionnaire on sociodemographic data, frequency of eating in fast-food restaurants, and supplement intake were also recorded. The person responsible for the child’s diet and the schooler himself completed the questionnaires, and homemade measures were used to estimate the size of the portions. Food prices were obtained from the Household Consumption Database of the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. The economic cost of the diet was calculated by multiplying the amount in grams of the food consumed by each child by the corresponding price in grams and adding up the total amount for each participant. The total economic cost of the diet was calculated in €/day and in €/1000 kcal/day. Results: The area under the curve (AUC) for €/day and €/1000 kcal/day represent 62.6% and 65.6%, respectively. According to AUC values, adherence to Mediterranean diet (MD) is a moderate predictor of the monetary cost of the diet. A direct relationship between the cost of the diet and the adherence to MD was observed [OR (€/1000 kcal/day) = 3.012 CI (95%): 1.291 7.026 p = 0.011]. Conclusions: In a cohort of Spanish schoolchildren with low adherence to the MD, a higher cost of the diet standardized to 1000 kcal was associated with above-average MAI values. |
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