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The study aimed to evaluate the breakfast (BF) of the Brazilian low-income population, analyzing cultural aspects, such as the habit of consuming regional foods and the BF food identity markers. This cross-sectional study used a sample of 1872 low-income Brazilians. For the food consumption analysis, three 24–hour dietary recalls were used. For the...
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... data showed that there is a significant difference (p = 0.000; chi-square) in the use of regional foods between Sundays and weekdays for all the regions. Table 4. describes the frequency of consumption of foods in BF of the research participants, which were grouped as follows: drinks, cereals, or substitutes rich in complex carbohydrates, a complement of cereals/substitutes, fruits, added sugar/sweetener. ...Context 2
... bread additions (butter, margarine, mayonnaise, honey, cheeses, sausages, curd, and jams), margarine was the most consumed, with a significant difference in the Northeast region compared to the South, and Southeast to the South. Butter had a significant difference in its consumption in the South and the Northeast and Southeast (Table 4). ...Context 3
... In the present study, there was a significant difference regarding the consumption of fruits from the Northeast region with the North, South, and Southeast (Table 4)) regions. The Northeast region consumed almost two times more fruit than the Southeast and South regions, and more than two times the amount consumed in the North. ...Similar publications
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... Only 10.4% of the participants skipped breakfast. Sousa et al. [38] studied 1,872 low-income Brazilians and showed higher breakfast skipping (17.3%), another study with 21,003 Brazilians showed much higher breakfast skipping (33.1%) [39]. Kant and Graubard [40] studying the US population presented a breakfast skipping of 18%. ...
Immigration can improve economic status and access to education compared to the country of origin, but it challenges access to health and preventive care. Assess Brazilian immigrants' overall health conditions and dietary intake in New Jersey (US). This pilot study assessed health conditions and dietary intake. Brazilians immigrants were interviewed through their communities. Trained dietitians interviewed them using a questionnaire and three days of 24H recall. Dietary intake was analyzed using the Nutrition Data System for Research software. A sample of 118 individuals completed the protocol, majority female and overweight/obese, living in the US for 11.3 years with 21.1% declaring having Noncommunicable Diseases. The average number of daily meals was 2.20 ± 1.04. Energy intake does not correlate with time in the US. Obesity, dyslipidemia, and hypertension are the most prevalent Noncommunicable Diseases, demanding interventions that include managing saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium intake.
... At the same time, however, it is important to stress that what counts as a typical breakfast food differs markedly across the globe (Bian & Markman, 2020a, 2020bde Sousa, Akutsu, Zandonadi, & Botelho, 2020;Haines et al., 1996;Howden et al., 1993;Parkinson, 2019;Walloga, 2015). For example, it has been reported that while rice and beans tend to be a common feature of lunch and dinner, coffee (with milk and sugar) bread margarine/butter and to a lesser degree regional foods are a common feature of low-income Brazilian breakfasts (de Sousa, Akutsu, Zandonadi, & Botelho, 2020). ...
When questioned, people typically report that different foods are appropriate at different times of day. What is more, patterns of food consumption tend to exhibit marked diurnal/circadian variations in many parts of the world too. The question addressed in this review is what factors help to explain these temporal differences in food consumption. While it has been suggested that our nutritional needs may differ somewhat over the course of the day, cultural conventions, marketing-led interventions, atmospheric (e.g., think only of changes in ambient temperature and/or daily light levels), perceptual (i.e., threshold) and/or hedonic changes, as well as psychological factors have also been suggested to play a role. Taken together, though, the evidence reviewed here would appear to support the view that cultural and psychological factors, not to mention the ubiquitous influence of food marketing, may be the most important factors in terms of helping to explain why it is that so many of us choose to eat different foods at different times of the day. Relevant psychological factors here include everything from the purported depletion of self-restraint resources over the course of the day through to the fulfilment of different psychological needs (e.g., functional or hedonic) associated with different mealtimes. Given the unhealthy foods typically associated with breakfast in many western countries (e.g., think only of sugar-laden breakfast cereals), gaining a better understanding of the factors underpinning current temporal patterns of food consumption may potentially help those wanting to nudge consumers toward making healthier food choices in the future.
... Considering its size and the diversity of available foods, the quality and quantity of food consumption in the country is diverse. In this context, income, prices, preferences, beliefs, and cultural traditions, as well as geographical, environmental, social, and economic factors, influence dietary consumption patterns [58]. ...
Food is a fundamental right that deserves attention but is usually dealt with from the supply side in aggregated models that use macroeconomic variables to forecast the demand and the required supply. This study challenges this paradigm by developing a simulator to analyze food consumption from the demand side and estimate the evolution of disparity in food consumption over time with respect to region, sex, ethnicity, education, and income. This novel approach was applied to Brazil using household expenditure surveys to feed serial neural networks. Results show that the 'poorer' north and northeast of Brazil encounter the lowest consumption of food and are therefore the most food vulnerable regions. This trend continues to 2040. The 'richer' south and southeast regions have higher food consumption, which varies according to sex, ethnicity, education, and income. Brazil has contrasting issues with some groups having considerably higher food consumption, while other groups still have less than the threshold for healthy consumption. Now, the country not only has to deal with the food access by the most vulnerable due to the latest economic declines but also to deal with excess consumption, the so-called "double burden of malnutrition".
Community restaurants linked to government food and nutritional security programs are establishments created to offer meals to the population in socially vulnerable situations. The objective was to identify the methods, approaches, criteria, and indicators used to evaluate restaurants linked to government food and nutrition security programs. A scoping review based on the Joanna Briggs Institute’s methodology and the international guide’s recommendations of preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses extension for scoping reviews was conducted. Medline databases via PubMed, Lilacs, Scopus, Cochrane, Web of Science, and ScienceDirect were used. Primary observational studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, ethnographies, documentary studies, and case studies were included, with a quantitative, qualitative, and/or mixed approach. A total of 2498 studies were identified. After taking out 180 duplicated articles, another 2202 articles were excluded by the title. Among the 71 studies selected for complete reading, 10 did not correlate with the research objective, and 12 were included after analyzing the references, totaling 73 included studies. In this review, evaluative approaches were mapped and systematized on the menu, food consumption, food health, food security and/or insecurity, nutritional education, and human right to adequate food; users’ profile and health, implantation, history, perceptions, senses, and meanings; handlers/workers; hygienic–sanitary quality; evaluation and monitoring; physical–functional planning, and rest–intake. The presented data provide elements that can be adapted in future evaluations and describe the panorama of academic production in this area.
