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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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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 |
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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/). |
spellingShingle | Article 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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