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Geographic and socioeconomic diversity of food and nutrient intakes: a comparison of four European countries
PURPOSE: Public health policies and actions increasingly acknowledge the climate burden of food consumption. The aim of this study is to describe dietary intakes across four European countries, as baseline for further research towards healthier and environmentally-friendlier diets for Europe. METHOD...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6561990/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29594476 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00394-018-1673-6 |
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author | Mertens, Elly Kuijsten, Anneleen Dofková, Marcela Mistura, Lorenza D’Addezio, Laura Turrini, Aida Dubuisson, Carine Favret, Sandra Havard, Sabrina Trolle, Ellen van’t Veer, Pieter Geleijnse, Johanna M. |
author_facet | Mertens, Elly Kuijsten, Anneleen Dofková, Marcela Mistura, Lorenza D’Addezio, Laura Turrini, Aida Dubuisson, Carine Favret, Sandra Havard, Sabrina Trolle, Ellen van’t Veer, Pieter Geleijnse, Johanna M. |
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description | PURPOSE: Public health policies and actions increasingly acknowledge the climate burden of food consumption. The aim of this study is to describe dietary intakes across four European countries, as baseline for further research towards healthier and environmentally-friendlier diets for Europe. METHODS: Individual-level dietary intake data in adults were obtained from nationally-representative surveys from Denmark and France using a 7-day diet record, Italy using a 3-day diet record, and Czech Republic using two replicates of a 24-h recall. Energy-standardised food and nutrient intakes were calculated for each subject from the mean of two randomly selected days. RESULTS: There was clear geographical variability, with a between-country range for mean fruit intake from 118 to 199 g/day, for vegetables from 95 to 239 g/day, for fish from 12 to 45 g/day, for dairy from 129 to 302 g/day, for sweet beverages from 48 to 224 ml/day, and for alcohol from 8 to 15 g/day, with higher intakes in Italy for fruit, vegetables and fish, and in Denmark for dairy, sweet beverages and alcohol. In all countries, intakes were low for legumes (< 20 g/day), and nuts and seeds (< 5 g/day), but high for red and processed meat (> 80 g/day). Within countries, food intakes also varied by socio-economic factors such as age, gender, and educational level, but less pronounced by anthropometric factors such as overweight status. For nutrients, intakes were low for dietary fibre (15.8–19.4 g/day) and vitamin D (2.4–3.0 µg/day) in all countries, for potassium (2288–2938 mg/day) and magnesium (268–285 mg/day) except in Denmark, for vitamin E in Denmark (6.7 mg/day), and for folate in Czech Republic (212 µg/day). CONCLUSIONS: There is considerable variation in food and nutrient intakes across Europe, not only between, but also within countries. Individual-level dietary data provide insight into the heterogeneity of dietary habits beyond per capita food supply data, and this is crucial to balancing healthy and environmentally-friendly diets for European citizens. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s00394-018-1673-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-65619902019-06-28 Geographic and socioeconomic diversity of food and nutrient intakes: a comparison of four European countries Mertens, Elly Kuijsten, Anneleen Dofková, Marcela Mistura, Lorenza D’Addezio, Laura Turrini, Aida Dubuisson, Carine Favret, Sandra Havard, Sabrina Trolle, Ellen van’t Veer, Pieter Geleijnse, Johanna M. Eur J Nutr Original Contribution PURPOSE: Public health policies and actions increasingly acknowledge the climate burden of food consumption. The aim of this study is to describe dietary intakes across four European countries, as baseline for further research towards healthier and environmentally-friendlier diets for Europe. METHODS: Individual-level dietary intake data in adults were obtained from nationally-representative surveys from Denmark and France using a 7-day diet record, Italy using a 3-day diet record, and Czech Republic using two replicates of a 24-h recall. Energy-standardised food and nutrient intakes were calculated for each subject from the mean of two randomly selected days. RESULTS: There was clear geographical variability, with a between-country range for mean fruit intake from 118 to 199 g/day, for vegetables from 95 to 239 g/day, for fish from 12 to 45 g/day, for dairy from 129 to 302 g/day, for sweet beverages from 48 to 224 ml/day, and for alcohol from 8 to 15 g/day, with higher intakes in Italy for fruit, vegetables and fish, and in Denmark for dairy, sweet beverages and alcohol. In all countries, intakes were low for legumes (< 20 g/day), and nuts and seeds (< 5 g/day), but high for red and processed meat (> 80 g/day). Within countries, food intakes also varied by socio-economic factors such as age, gender, and educational level, but less pronounced by anthropometric factors such as overweight status. For nutrients, intakes were low for dietary fibre (15.8–19.4 g/day) and vitamin D (2.4–3.0 µg/day) in all countries, for potassium (2288–2938 mg/day) and magnesium (268–285 mg/day) except in Denmark, for vitamin E in Denmark (6.7 mg/day), and for folate in Czech Republic (212 µg/day). CONCLUSIONS: There is considerable variation in food and nutrient intakes across Europe, not only between, but also within countries. Individual-level dietary data provide insight into the heterogeneity of dietary habits beyond per capita food supply data, and this is crucial to balancing healthy and environmentally-friendly diets for European citizens. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s00394-018-1673-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018-03-28 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6561990/ /pubmed/29594476 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00394-018-1673-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Original Contribution Mertens, Elly Kuijsten, Anneleen Dofková, Marcela Mistura, Lorenza D’Addezio, Laura Turrini, Aida Dubuisson, Carine Favret, Sandra Havard, Sabrina Trolle, Ellen van’t Veer, Pieter Geleijnse, Johanna M. Geographic and socioeconomic diversity of food and nutrient intakes: a comparison of four European countries |
title | Geographic and socioeconomic diversity of food and nutrient intakes: a comparison of four European countries |
title_full | Geographic and socioeconomic diversity of food and nutrient intakes: a comparison of four European countries |
title_fullStr | Geographic and socioeconomic diversity of food and nutrient intakes: a comparison of four European countries |
title_full_unstemmed | Geographic and socioeconomic diversity of food and nutrient intakes: a comparison of four European countries |
title_short | Geographic and socioeconomic diversity of food and nutrient intakes: a comparison of four European countries |
title_sort | geographic and socioeconomic diversity of food and nutrient intakes: a comparison of four european countries |
topic | Original Contribution |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6561990/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29594476 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00394-018-1673-6 |
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