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Food Perceptions and Dietary Changes for Chronic Condition Management in Rural Peru: Insights for Health Promotion
Peru is undergoing a nutrition transition and, at the country level, it faces a double burden of disease where several different conditions require dietary changes to maintain a healthy life and prevent complications. Through semistructured interviews in rural Peru with people affected by three infe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6267004/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30360485 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu10111563 |
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author | Perez-Leon, Silvana Pesantes, M. Amalia Aya Pastrana, Nathaly Raman, Shivani Miranda, Jaime Suggs, L. Suzanne |
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description | Peru is undergoing a nutrition transition and, at the country level, it faces a double burden of disease where several different conditions require dietary changes to maintain a healthy life and prevent complications. Through semistructured interviews in rural Peru with people affected by three infectious and noninfectious chronic conditions (type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and neurocysticercosis), their relatives, and focus group discussions with community members, we analyzed their perspectives on the value of food and the challenges of dietary changes due to medical diagnosis. The findings show the various ways in which people from rural northern Peru conceptualize good (buena alimentación) and bad (mala alimentación) food, and that food choices are based on life-long learning, experience, exposure, and availability. In the context of poverty, required changes are not only related to what people recognize as healthy food, such as fruits and vegetables, but also of work, family, trust, taste, as well as affordability and accessibility of foods. In this paper we discuss the complexity of introducing dietary changes in poor rural communities whose perspectives on food are poorly understood and rarely taken into consideration by health professionals when promoting behavior change. |
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spelling | pubmed-62670042018-12-06 Food Perceptions and Dietary Changes for Chronic Condition Management in Rural Peru: Insights for Health Promotion Perez-Leon, Silvana Pesantes, M. Amalia Aya Pastrana, Nathaly Raman, Shivani Miranda, Jaime Suggs, L. Suzanne Nutrients Article Peru is undergoing a nutrition transition and, at the country level, it faces a double burden of disease where several different conditions require dietary changes to maintain a healthy life and prevent complications. Through semistructured interviews in rural Peru with people affected by three infectious and noninfectious chronic conditions (type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and neurocysticercosis), their relatives, and focus group discussions with community members, we analyzed their perspectives on the value of food and the challenges of dietary changes due to medical diagnosis. The findings show the various ways in which people from rural northern Peru conceptualize good (buena alimentación) and bad (mala alimentación) food, and that food choices are based on life-long learning, experience, exposure, and availability. In the context of poverty, required changes are not only related to what people recognize as healthy food, such as fruits and vegetables, but also of work, family, trust, taste, as well as affordability and accessibility of foods. In this paper we discuss the complexity of introducing dietary changes in poor rural communities whose perspectives on food are poorly understood and rarely taken into consideration by health professionals when promoting behavior change. MDPI 2018-10-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6267004/ /pubmed/30360485 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu10111563 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Perez-Leon, Silvana Pesantes, M. Amalia Aya Pastrana, Nathaly Raman, Shivani Miranda, Jaime Suggs, L. Suzanne Food Perceptions and Dietary Changes for Chronic Condition Management in Rural Peru: Insights for Health Promotion |
title | Food Perceptions and Dietary Changes for Chronic Condition Management in Rural Peru: Insights for Health Promotion |
title_full | Food Perceptions and Dietary Changes for Chronic Condition Management in Rural Peru: Insights for Health Promotion |
title_fullStr | Food Perceptions and Dietary Changes for Chronic Condition Management in Rural Peru: Insights for Health Promotion |
title_full_unstemmed | Food Perceptions and Dietary Changes for Chronic Condition Management in Rural Peru: Insights for Health Promotion |
title_short | Food Perceptions and Dietary Changes for Chronic Condition Management in Rural Peru: Insights for Health Promotion |
title_sort | food perceptions and dietary changes for chronic condition management in rural peru: insights for health promotion |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6267004/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30360485 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu10111563 |
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