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Traditional Individual and Environmental Determinants of Healthy Eating in Vihiga County, Western Kenya
Traditional ethnic groups in Kenya are unlikely to eat a healthy and diversified diet due to many individual and environmental factors, which may result in poor health status. Therefore, the determinants of eating behavior need to be identified prior to any public health action. For this study, focu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9320670/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35889748 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14142791 |
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author | Penafiel, Daniela Termote, Celine Van Damme, Patrick |
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description | Traditional ethnic groups in Kenya are unlikely to eat a healthy and diversified diet due to many individual and environmental factors, which may result in poor health status. Therefore, the determinants of eating behavior need to be identified prior to any public health action. For this study, focus group discussions (15 in total) in a double-layer design were conducted, comprising adult men and women from 5 villages of Vihiga County. Questions explored knowledge; barriers and cues to action toward eating a healthy diet containing a variety of foods; including indigenous food species. We found that healthy eating concepts are known; however, several taboos that restrict food consumption reduce local diet quality in terms of diversity. Nutrition education is a cue to action. We identified several individual and environmental determinants of eating behavior in the studied communities. Public health action should focus on supporting healthy eating behaviors and refining some taboos’ beliefs. |
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spelling | pubmed-93206702022-07-27 Traditional Individual and Environmental Determinants of Healthy Eating in Vihiga County, Western Kenya Penafiel, Daniela Termote, Celine Van Damme, Patrick Nutrients Communication Traditional ethnic groups in Kenya are unlikely to eat a healthy and diversified diet due to many individual and environmental factors, which may result in poor health status. Therefore, the determinants of eating behavior need to be identified prior to any public health action. For this study, focus group discussions (15 in total) in a double-layer design were conducted, comprising adult men and women from 5 villages of Vihiga County. Questions explored knowledge; barriers and cues to action toward eating a healthy diet containing a variety of foods; including indigenous food species. We found that healthy eating concepts are known; however, several taboos that restrict food consumption reduce local diet quality in terms of diversity. Nutrition education is a cue to action. We identified several individual and environmental determinants of eating behavior in the studied communities. Public health action should focus on supporting healthy eating behaviors and refining some taboos’ beliefs. MDPI 2022-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9320670/ /pubmed/35889748 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14142791 Text en © 2022 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 | Communication Penafiel, Daniela Termote, Celine Van Damme, Patrick Traditional Individual and Environmental Determinants of Healthy Eating in Vihiga County, Western Kenya |
title | Traditional Individual and Environmental Determinants of Healthy Eating in Vihiga County, Western Kenya |
title_full | Traditional Individual and Environmental Determinants of Healthy Eating in Vihiga County, Western Kenya |
title_fullStr | Traditional Individual and Environmental Determinants of Healthy Eating in Vihiga County, Western Kenya |
title_full_unstemmed | Traditional Individual and Environmental Determinants of Healthy Eating in Vihiga County, Western Kenya |
title_short | Traditional Individual and Environmental Determinants of Healthy Eating in Vihiga County, Western Kenya |
title_sort | traditional individual and environmental determinants of healthy eating in vihiga county, western kenya |
topic | Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9320670/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35889748 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14142791 |
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