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Variation in nutrient intake with the advent of nutrition transition in Guatemala: Comparison of contemporary metropolitan intakes with archival data from the 1950s
Author(s) -
Hernandez Liza,
Bermudez Odilia I.,
Mazariegos Manolo,
Solomons Noel W.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.21.5.a311
Subject(s) - metropolitan area , micronutrient , urbanization , geography , nutrition transition , nutrient , population , dietary diversity , rural area , micronutrient deficiency , socioeconomics , environmental health , biology , agriculture , medicine , sociology , food security , ecology , obesity , archaeology , endocrinology , overweight , pathology
Urbanization, modernization of communication and international food commerce are factors driving nutrition transition around the world. We sought to compare the quantitative intakes of selected macro‐ and micronutrients from contemporary dietary surveys of adult samples in Guatemalan metropolitan areas of Guatemala City (GC) and Quetzaltenango (QC) with data collected by dietary recalls among rural village households during the 1950s. A common food composition database was used. The partition of CHO:Fat:Pro (in % of total energy) in the earlier rural setting was: 80:10:10; in the contemporary metropolitan GC, 67:20:13; and in QC, 61:27:12. Using the average daily micronutrient estimates of rural archival data as a 100% reference, current urban intakes were for GC, vit C, 441%; thi, 183%; ribo, 300%; Ca, 145%; and Fe, 101%., and for QC, vit C, 495%: thi, 233%; ribo, 357%; Ca, 118%; and Fe, 125%. In sum, with a similar proportion of energy from proteins (<13%), more fat, vitamins, Ca and Fe, and less CHO were consumed by the emerging modal population (urbanized) as compared to the typical (rural) populace of 50 years ago. Funded by International Nutrition Foundation and CONCYT‐Guatemala (24‐98; 24‐00)