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A Healthy Diet Is Not More Expensive than Less Healthy Options: Cost-Analysis of Different Dietary Patterns in Mexican Children and Adolescents

Unhealthy diets are recognized as a major risk factor for many diseases. The decrease in costs of industrialized products, as well as the possible misinformation about a healthy diet, has led to new behaviors in the dietary patterns of the pediatric population. The costs of dietary patterns have not...

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Autores principales: Clark, Patricia, Mendoza-Gutiérrez, Carlos F., Montiel-Ojeda, Diana, Denova-Gutiérrez, Edgar, López-González, Desirée, Moreno-Altamirano, Laura, Reyes, Alfonso
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8624608/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34836126
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13113871
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author Clark, Patricia
Mendoza-Gutiérrez, Carlos F.
Montiel-Ojeda, Diana
Denova-Gutiérrez, Edgar
López-González, Desirée
Moreno-Altamirano, Laura
Reyes, Alfonso
author_facet Clark, Patricia
Mendoza-Gutiérrez, Carlos F.
Montiel-Ojeda, Diana
Denova-Gutiérrez, Edgar
López-González, Desirée
Moreno-Altamirano, Laura
Reyes, Alfonso
author_sort Clark, Patricia
collection PubMed
description Unhealthy diets are recognized as a major risk factor for many diseases. The decrease in costs of industrialized products, as well as the possible misinformation about a healthy diet, has led to new behaviors in the dietary patterns of the pediatric population. The costs of dietary patterns have not been estimated in our population, so the objective of this study was to determine the cost associated with dietary patterns in Mexican children and adolescents, hypothesizing that a healthy diet is not necessarily more economically expensive. This study analyzed data from a population-based cross-sectional study of healthy children and adolescents in Mexico City. Data were collected from a food frequency questionnaire and the meal cost of habitual food shopping. Eating patterns were obtained by using principal component analysis. A micro-costing technique was performed to obtain the direct costs of each pattern. When comparing the healthy pattern with the transition and non-healthy patterns, it was observed that there were no statistically significant differences between the dietary patterns (p = 0.8293). The cost of the healthy pattern only takes up 16.6% of the total biweekly income of a salaried Mexican. In this study, no differences were observed between the costs of a healthy and a less healthy diet.
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spelling pubmed-86246082021-11-27 A Healthy Diet Is Not More Expensive than Less Healthy Options: Cost-Analysis of Different Dietary Patterns in Mexican Children and Adolescents Clark, Patricia Mendoza-Gutiérrez, Carlos F. Montiel-Ojeda, Diana Denova-Gutiérrez, Edgar López-González, Desirée Moreno-Altamirano, Laura Reyes, Alfonso Nutrients Article Unhealthy diets are recognized as a major risk factor for many diseases. The decrease in costs of industrialized products, as well as the possible misinformation about a healthy diet, has led to new behaviors in the dietary patterns of the pediatric population. The costs of dietary patterns have not been estimated in our population, so the objective of this study was to determine the cost associated with dietary patterns in Mexican children and adolescents, hypothesizing that a healthy diet is not necessarily more economically expensive. This study analyzed data from a population-based cross-sectional study of healthy children and adolescents in Mexico City. Data were collected from a food frequency questionnaire and the meal cost of habitual food shopping. Eating patterns were obtained by using principal component analysis. A micro-costing technique was performed to obtain the direct costs of each pattern. When comparing the healthy pattern with the transition and non-healthy patterns, it was observed that there were no statistically significant differences between the dietary patterns (p = 0.8293). The cost of the healthy pattern only takes up 16.6% of the total biweekly income of a salaried Mexican. In this study, no differences were observed between the costs of a healthy and a less healthy diet. MDPI 2021-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8624608/ /pubmed/34836126 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13113871 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Clark, Patricia
Mendoza-Gutiérrez, Carlos F.
Montiel-Ojeda, Diana
Denova-Gutiérrez, Edgar
López-González, Desirée
Moreno-Altamirano, Laura
Reyes, Alfonso
A Healthy Diet Is Not More Expensive than Less Healthy Options: Cost-Analysis of Different Dietary Patterns in Mexican Children and Adolescents
title A Healthy Diet Is Not More Expensive than Less Healthy Options: Cost-Analysis of Different Dietary Patterns in Mexican Children and Adolescents
title_full A Healthy Diet Is Not More Expensive than Less Healthy Options: Cost-Analysis of Different Dietary Patterns in Mexican Children and Adolescents
title_fullStr A Healthy Diet Is Not More Expensive than Less Healthy Options: Cost-Analysis of Different Dietary Patterns in Mexican Children and Adolescents
title_full_unstemmed A Healthy Diet Is Not More Expensive than Less Healthy Options: Cost-Analysis of Different Dietary Patterns in Mexican Children and Adolescents
title_short A Healthy Diet Is Not More Expensive than Less Healthy Options: Cost-Analysis of Different Dietary Patterns in Mexican Children and Adolescents
title_sort healthy diet is not more expensive than less healthy options: cost-analysis of different dietary patterns in mexican children and adolescents
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8624608/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34836126
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13113871
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