Factors associated with overweight among elementary schoolchildren in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Conclusion These results support the urgent need of strategies to reduce overweight/obesity and promote its prevention in schoolchildren. Moreover, intervention studies involving parents and addressing environmental factors are important for the development of effective programs.RESUMO Objetivo Avaliar o sobrepeso/obesidade de escolares do ensino fundamental de Campinas, estado de São Paulo, e sua associação com: estado nutricional dos pais, consumo de alimentos, preferências alimentares, atividade física e condições socioeconômicas da família. Métodos Este estudo caso-controle incluiu 509 escolares de 7 a 10 a...
Source: Revista de Nutricao - May 31, 2016 Category: Nutrition Source Type: research
Excessive television-viewing time and its influence on adolescent food intake
Conclusion High television-viewing time was associated with poor eating habits. Adolescents with high television-viewing time should be encouraged to make healthier food choices, since poor eating habits and physical inactivity increase the risk of chronic diseases already during adolescence, especially when combined. (Source: Revista de Nutricao)
Source: Revista de Nutricao - May 31, 2016 Category: Nutrition Source Type: research
Sleep quality and metabolic syndrome in overweight or obese children and adolescents
Conclusion Girls had higher global Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index score, which was associated with daytime dysfunction. Poor sleep quality was a predictor of high diastolic blood pressure in the study sample.RESUMO Objetivo Avaliar a qualidade do sono e sua associação com a síndrome metabólica e seus componentes. Métodos Estudo transversal, realizado entre junho de 2011 e março de 2012 no Centro de Obesidade Infantil, Campina Grande, Paraíba. Foram incluídas 135 crianças e adolescentes com sobrepeso ou obesidade. A qualidade do sono foi avaliada pelo Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. Para o diagnóstico de síndro...
Source: Revista de Nutricao - May 31, 2016 Category: Nutrition Source Type: research
Prevalence and factors associated with the prescription/request for infant formula
Conclusion Despite the title "Baby-Friendly Hospital", numerous unnecessary and hasty infant formula indications were identified, which may hinder breastfeeding and favor early weaning, suggesting that the care team needs to assess infant formula indication more thoroughly. (Source: Revista de Nutricao)
Source: Revista de Nutricao - May 31, 2016 Category: Nutrition Source Type: research
Physical intimate partner violence and low birth weight in newborns from primary health care units of the city of Rio de Janeiro
Conclusion These findings draw attention to the consequences of physical intimate partner violence on the nutritional status of newborns and emphasize the need of greater attention during prenatal care to improve women's quality of life and to reduce the rate of low birth weight.RESUMO Objetivo Investigar a associação da violência física entre parceiros íntimos e a ocorrência de baixo peso ao nascer. Métodos Estudo seccional com 604 crianças com cerca de 30 dias que compareceram a quatro unidades de saúde do município do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, para realização da segunda dose da vacina contra hepatite B. Cria...
Source: Revista de Nutricao - May 31, 2016 Category: Nutrition Source Type: research
Use of self-reported weight and height for determining workers' nutritional status
Conclusion Self-reported measures should be used carefully for evaluating nutritional status in workers, mainly in subjects who tend to misreport, such as women, older workers, and workers with lower education level. (Source: Revista de Nutricao)
Source: Revista de Nutricao - May 31, 2016 Category: Nutrition Source Type: research
Factors related to food involvement in the adult population
Conclusion The results presented here suggest that food involvement can be stimulated through innovative strategies of communication that go beyond the biological arguments and focus on the cultural expression of the elements of socialization, whose relationship with eating is well established.RESUMO Objetivo Investigar os aspectos associados ao envolvimento com alimentação e verificar se os indivíduos que apresentam um maior envolvimento com alimentação consomem maiores quantidades de frutas e hortaliças. Métodos Estudo analítico transversal conduzido com 301 adultos (19-59 anos) do Distrito Federal. O cálculo ...
Source: Revista de Nutricao - May 31, 2016 Category: Nutrition Source Type: research
Risk factors associated with malnutrition in hospitalized patients
Conclusion Malnutrition is recurrent in hospitals, and the factors associated with malnutrition can be identified on admission, allowing adequate monitoring during hospital stay. Therefore, a more effective performance of nutritional screening and monitoring programs is critical.RESUMO Objetivo Identificar fatores associados à desnutrição em pacientes internados em hospitais gerais da rede pública de Manaus, Amazonas. Métodos Estudo transversal que envolveu 397 pacientes, de ambos os sexos e idade superior a 18 anos, internados em três hospitais públicos de Manaus, Amazonas. Foi realizada avaliação antropométri...
Source: Revista de Nutricao - May 31, 2016 Category: Nutrition Source Type: research
Association between nutritional indicators and risk of hospitalization among hemodialysis patients
Conclusion Serum albumin was able to predict the risk of hospitalization over a period of two years in female patients undergoing hemodialysis.RESUMO Objetivo Verificar a capacidade preditiva de indicadores nutricionais em relação ao risco de hospitalização em pacientes em hemodiálise. Métodos Estudo de coorte prospectivo em duas unidades de hemodiálise no Sul do Brasil. Os indicadores nutricionais avaliados foram: avaliação subjetiva global, escore de desnutrição-inflamação, rastreamento de risco nutricional 2002, percentual de gordura corporal, circunferência muscular do braço, força do aperto da mão, ...
Source: Revista de Nutricao - May 31, 2016 Category: Nutrition Source Type: research
Decreased calorie and protein intake is a risk factor for infection and prolonged length of stay in surgical patients: A prospective cohort study
Conclusion Most patients did not have adequate nutritional therapy. Those with inadequate nutritional therapy had a higher risk of infection and longer length of stay.RESUMO Objetivo Avaliar se a quantidade de calorias e proteínas ingeridas no pós-operatório aumenta o risco de infecção e de permanência hospitalar prolongada, em um hospital universitário no Sul do Brasil. Métodos Estudo de coorte prospectivo, aprovado por Comitê de Ética e Pesquisa. A amostra consistiu de adultos hospitalizados submetidos à cirurgia eletiva. Os critérios de exclusão foram pacientes que não tinham condições para avaliação...
Source: Revista de Nutricao - May 31, 2016 Category: Nutrition Source Type: research
Acquisition of family farm foods for school meals: Analysis of public procurements within rural family farming published by the cities of São Paulo state
Conclusion: Fresh foods were the most common types of foods in the public procurement within rural family farming, demonstrating that the acquisition of family farm products can contribute to school meal quality. Objetivo: Avaliar o perfil dos alimentos presentes nas chamadas públicas para aquisição de alimentos da agricultura familiar para o Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar de municípios do estado de São Paulo. Métodos: Foram analisadas 122 chamadas públicas de 99 municípios publicadas de janeiro à setembro por meio eletrônico. Os alimentos foram classificados nos grupos: cereais, raízes e tubérculo...
Source: Revista de Nutricao - February 27, 2016 Category: Nutrition Source Type: research
Linear growth of Brazilian children: Reflections in the context of social equity
In conclusion, despite the decline of stunting in Brazil as a result of the impact of public policies, there are still inequities with marked vulnerability in disadvantaged sociocultural groups. Thus, the targeting of research and actions for these population segments is imperative. (Source: Revista de Nutricao)
Source: Revista de Nutricao - February 27, 2016 Category: Nutrition Source Type: research
Rich man's food, poor man's food in "The mansions and the shanties": A narrative review of the book written by Gilberto Freyre
This article aims to perform a narrative review of the book "The mansions and the shanties" written by the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, published for the first time in 1936. The study analyzed Gilberto Freyre's contribution to the process of interpreting the formation and modification of the eating habits and patterns of the Brazilian society. The analysis is limited to a review, from a dietician's perspective, of text clippings where Freyre seeks to reconstruct and interpret the process of formation and modification of eating habits and patterns in the context of a patriarchal society. The text will try to answe...
Source: Revista de Nutricao - February 27, 2016 Category: Nutrition Source Type: research
Sixty years of the National Food Program in Brazil
School meals were introduced in the Brazilian political agenda by a group of scholars known as nutrition scientists' in the 1940s. In 1955, the Campanha de Merenda Escolar, the first official school food program, was stablished, and sixty years after its inception, school food in Brazil stands as a decentralised public policy, providing services to students enrolled in public schools, which involve the Brazilian federal government, twentyseven federative units, and their 5,570 municipalities. Throughout its history, school food has gone through many stages that reflect the social transformations in Brazil: from a campaign ...
Source: Revista de Nutricao - February 27, 2016 Category: Nutrition Source Type: research
Are we secure? Reflections on indicators for evaluating food and nutritional security
This article aims to reflect on the evaluation indicators for food and nutrition security in Brazil. This brief reflection focuses on the challenges of experts and researchers in food and nutritional security to embrace its interdisciplinary principles. One expects to motivate the interest in developing new indicators and evaluation methodologies and more comprehensive and systemic instruments to collect information about food insecurity. It is deemed important to promote reflection on the limitations of the scales of measurement of food and nutrition (in)security in pointing and covering the complementarities between the ...
Source: Revista de Nutricao - February 27, 2016 Category: Nutrition Source Type: research
