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Guatemalan school food environment: impact on schoolchildren's risk of both undernutrition and overweight/obesity
Guatemala suffers the double burden of malnutrition with high rates of stunting alongside increasing childhood overweight/obesity. This study examines the school food environment (SFE) at low-income Guatemalan elementary schools and discusses its potential impact on undernutrition and overweight/obe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5009217/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25823911 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/dav011 |
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author | Pehlke, Elisa L. Letona, Paola Hurley, Kristen Gittelsohn, Joel |
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description | Guatemala suffers the double burden of malnutrition with high rates of stunting alongside increasing childhood overweight/obesity. This study examines the school food environment (SFE) at low-income Guatemalan elementary schools and discusses its potential impact on undernutrition and overweight/obesity. From July through October 2013, direct observations, in-depth interviews with school principals (n = 4) and food kiosk vendors (n = 4, 2 interviews each) and also focus groups (FGs) with children (n = 48, 8 FGs) were conducted. The SFE comprises food from school food kiosks (casetas); food from home or purchased in the street; and food provided by the school (refacción). School casetas, street vendors and children's parents largely provide sandwiches, calorie-rich snacks and sugar-sweetened beverages. Refacción typically serves energy dense atol, a traditional beverage. The current school food program (refacción), the overall SFE and the roles/opinions of vendors and principals reveal persistent anxiety concerning undernutrition and insufficient concern for overweight/obesity. Predominant concern for elementary schoolchildren remains focused on undernutrition. However, by the time children reach elementary school (ages 6–12+), food environments should encourage dietary behaviors to prevent childhood overweight/obesity. |
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spelling | pubmed-50092172016-09-07 Guatemalan school food environment: impact on schoolchildren's risk of both undernutrition and overweight/obesity Pehlke, Elisa L. Letona, Paola Hurley, Kristen Gittelsohn, Joel Health Promot Int Original Articles Guatemala suffers the double burden of malnutrition with high rates of stunting alongside increasing childhood overweight/obesity. This study examines the school food environment (SFE) at low-income Guatemalan elementary schools and discusses its potential impact on undernutrition and overweight/obesity. From July through October 2013, direct observations, in-depth interviews with school principals (n = 4) and food kiosk vendors (n = 4, 2 interviews each) and also focus groups (FGs) with children (n = 48, 8 FGs) were conducted. The SFE comprises food from school food kiosks (casetas); food from home or purchased in the street; and food provided by the school (refacción). School casetas, street vendors and children's parents largely provide sandwiches, calorie-rich snacks and sugar-sweetened beverages. Refacción typically serves energy dense atol, a traditional beverage. The current school food program (refacción), the overall SFE and the roles/opinions of vendors and principals reveal persistent anxiety concerning undernutrition and insufficient concern for overweight/obesity. Predominant concern for elementary schoolchildren remains focused on undernutrition. However, by the time children reach elementary school (ages 6–12+), food environments should encourage dietary behaviors to prevent childhood overweight/obesity. Oxford University Press 2016-09 2015-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5009217/ /pubmed/25823911 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/dav011 Text en © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Pehlke, Elisa L. Letona, Paola Hurley, Kristen Gittelsohn, Joel Guatemalan school food environment: impact on schoolchildren's risk of both undernutrition and overweight/obesity |
title | Guatemalan school food environment: impact on schoolchildren's risk of both undernutrition and overweight/obesity |
title_full | Guatemalan school food environment: impact on schoolchildren's risk of both undernutrition and overweight/obesity |
title_fullStr | Guatemalan school food environment: impact on schoolchildren's risk of both undernutrition and overweight/obesity |
title_full_unstemmed | Guatemalan school food environment: impact on schoolchildren's risk of both undernutrition and overweight/obesity |
title_short | Guatemalan school food environment: impact on schoolchildren's risk of both undernutrition and overweight/obesity |
title_sort | guatemalan school food environment: impact on schoolchildren's risk of both undernutrition and overweight/obesity |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5009217/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25823911 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/dav011 |
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