Generational issues in linking family farming production, traditional food in diet, physical activity and obesity in Pacific Islands countries and territories: the case of the Melanesian population on Lifou Island
| Autor: | Guillaume Wattelez, Marco Goldin, Séverine Bouard, Olivier Galy, Alan Quartermain, Jean Marie Fotsing, Stéphane Frayon, Paul Zongo, Sonny Lameta |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de recherches en éducation (LIRE), Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie (UNC) |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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lifestyle
[SHS.EDU]Humanities and Social Sciences/Education [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] Population physical activity Overweight Logistic regression [SDV.MHEP.PHY]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Tissues and Organs [q-bio.TO] medicine overweight Traditional knowledge Socioeconomics education Socioeconomic status agriculture Multinomial logistic regression education.field_of_study Case Study business.industry health Articles General Medicine medicine.disease Obesity nutrition Geography Agriculture [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie traditional knowledge medicine.symptom business [SDV.AEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food and Nutrition |
| Zdroj: | Open Research Europe Open Research Europe, 2021, 1, pp.135. ⟨10.12688/openreseurope.13705.1⟩ |
| ISSN: | 2732-5121 |
| DOI: | 10.12688/openreseurope.13705.1 |
| Popis: | International audience; In the Melanesian culture, traditional activities are organized around family farming, although the lifestyle transition taking place over the last several decades has led to imbalances in diet and physical activity, with both leading to obesity. The aim of this interdisciplinary study was to understand the links between family farming (produced, exchanged, sold, and consumed food), diet (focused on produced, hunted, and caught food), physical activity (sedentary, light, and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity) and obesity in Melanesian Lifou Island families (parents and children). Forty families, including 142 adults and children, completed individual food frequency questionnaires, wore tri-axial accelerometers for seven continuous days, and had weight and height measured with a bio-impedance device. A family farming questionnaire was conducted at the household level concerning family farming practices and sociodemographic variables. Multinomial regression analyses and logistic regression models were used to analyze the data. Results showed that family farming production brings a modest contribution to diet and active lifestyles for the family farmers of Lifou Island. The drivers for obesity in these tribal communities were linked to diet in the adults, whereas parental socioeconomic status and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity were the main factors associated to being overweight and obesity in children. These differences in lifestyle behaviors within families suggest a transition in cultural practices at the intergenerational level. Future directions should consider seasonality and a more in-depth analysis of diet including macro- and micro- nutrients to acquire more accurate information on the intergenerational transition in cultural practices and its consequences on health outcomes in the Pacific region. |
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