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Childhood Dietary Intake in Italy: The Epidemiological “MY FOOD DIARY” Survey

Promoting a healthy lifestyle during the first years of life is a key strategy for controlling obesity risk in later life; having good-quality epidemiological data on eating habits of infants and toddlers can improve awareness and possibly the education given by pediatricians to parents and children...

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Autores principales: Verduci, Elvira, Banderali, Giuseppe, Montanari, Chiara, Berni Canani, Roberto, Cimmino Caserta, Luigi, Corsello, Giovanni, Mosca, Fabio, Piazzolla, Ruggiero, Rescigno, Maria, Terracciano, Luigi, Troiano, Ersilia, Crosa, Marina, Maffeis, Claudio, Francavilla, Ruggiero
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Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6567114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31117214
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11051129
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author Verduci, Elvira
Banderali, Giuseppe
Montanari, Chiara
Berni Canani, Roberto
Cimmino Caserta, Luigi
Corsello, Giovanni
Mosca, Fabio
Piazzolla, Ruggiero
Rescigno, Maria
Terracciano, Luigi
Troiano, Ersilia
Crosa, Marina
Maffeis, Claudio
Francavilla, Ruggiero
author_facet Verduci, Elvira
Banderali, Giuseppe
Montanari, Chiara
Berni Canani, Roberto
Cimmino Caserta, Luigi
Corsello, Giovanni
Mosca, Fabio
Piazzolla, Ruggiero
Rescigno, Maria
Terracciano, Luigi
Troiano, Ersilia
Crosa, Marina
Maffeis, Claudio
Francavilla, Ruggiero
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description Promoting a healthy lifestyle during the first years of life is a key strategy for controlling obesity risk in later life; having good-quality epidemiological data on eating habits of infants and toddlers can improve awareness and possibly the education given by pediatricians to parents and children. With this aim, we performed a survey about the dietary pattern of Italian children in early childhood. We described the intake of energy, macronutrients and fiber, minerals, and vitamins of 443 Italian children (range 6.4–131 months), through a three-day food record filled out by their parents and assessed by family pediatricians. The results were compared with the Italian Dietary Reference Values. The median protein intake, in g/kg per body weight, exceeded the average requirement in all age groups, and in the 12–36 month period, the intake as % of energy was outside the reference range (>15%). The majority of the children consumed quantities of simple carbohydrates (consisting of both natural sugars and free or added sugars, 82.3% of the children in the study) and saturated fats (69% of the children in the study) above the limits of the Italian Dietary Reference Values, with low intake of fiber and polyunsaturated fats. Median mineral intake, in our study, was different depending on age, while vitamin D intake was very low in all age groups. This is one of the few studies reporting on the nutrient intake of Italian children with reference to nutrition recommendations in order to identify the principal nutritional errors. The present results underline the need for healthcare policies starting from the first years of life in order to ameliorate nutrient intake during childhood, possibly impacting long-term health outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-65671142019-06-17 Childhood Dietary Intake in Italy: The Epidemiological “MY FOOD DIARY” Survey Verduci, Elvira Banderali, Giuseppe Montanari, Chiara Berni Canani, Roberto Cimmino Caserta, Luigi Corsello, Giovanni Mosca, Fabio Piazzolla, Ruggiero Rescigno, Maria Terracciano, Luigi Troiano, Ersilia Crosa, Marina Maffeis, Claudio Francavilla, Ruggiero Nutrients Article Promoting a healthy lifestyle during the first years of life is a key strategy for controlling obesity risk in later life; having good-quality epidemiological data on eating habits of infants and toddlers can improve awareness and possibly the education given by pediatricians to parents and children. With this aim, we performed a survey about the dietary pattern of Italian children in early childhood. We described the intake of energy, macronutrients and fiber, minerals, and vitamins of 443 Italian children (range 6.4–131 months), through a three-day food record filled out by their parents and assessed by family pediatricians. The results were compared with the Italian Dietary Reference Values. The median protein intake, in g/kg per body weight, exceeded the average requirement in all age groups, and in the 12–36 month period, the intake as % of energy was outside the reference range (>15%). The majority of the children consumed quantities of simple carbohydrates (consisting of both natural sugars and free or added sugars, 82.3% of the children in the study) and saturated fats (69% of the children in the study) above the limits of the Italian Dietary Reference Values, with low intake of fiber and polyunsaturated fats. Median mineral intake, in our study, was different depending on age, while vitamin D intake was very low in all age groups. This is one of the few studies reporting on the nutrient intake of Italian children with reference to nutrition recommendations in order to identify the principal nutritional errors. The present results underline the need for healthcare policies starting from the first years of life in order to ameliorate nutrient intake during childhood, possibly impacting long-term health outcomes. MDPI 2019-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6567114/ /pubmed/31117214 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11051129 Text en © 2019 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/).
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Verduci, Elvira
Banderali, Giuseppe
Montanari, Chiara
Berni Canani, Roberto
Cimmino Caserta, Luigi
Corsello, Giovanni
Mosca, Fabio
Piazzolla, Ruggiero
Rescigno, Maria
Terracciano, Luigi
Troiano, Ersilia
Crosa, Marina
Maffeis, Claudio
Francavilla, Ruggiero
Childhood Dietary Intake in Italy: The Epidemiological “MY FOOD DIARY” Survey
title Childhood Dietary Intake in Italy: The Epidemiological “MY FOOD DIARY” Survey
title_full Childhood Dietary Intake in Italy: The Epidemiological “MY FOOD DIARY” Survey
title_fullStr Childhood Dietary Intake in Italy: The Epidemiological “MY FOOD DIARY” Survey
title_full_unstemmed Childhood Dietary Intake in Italy: The Epidemiological “MY FOOD DIARY” Survey
title_short Childhood Dietary Intake in Italy: The Epidemiological “MY FOOD DIARY” Survey
title_sort childhood dietary intake in italy: the epidemiological “my food diary” survey
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6567114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31117214
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11051129
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