Consumo alimentar e estado nutricional de feirantes do municipio de Dourados-MS

Abstract

By producing or having easy access to in natura foods the marketers could present a healthier diet as well as nutritional status. The objective of the study was to characterize the food consumption, nutritional status, socioeconomic and demographic aspects of the marketers in the city of Dourados-MS. A questionnaire was applied to describe food consumption and anthropometric measurements for EN. The comparison between proportions was elaborated through the adoption of the chi-square test (χ2), Person. The value of p <0.05 was considered significant. Seventy-four people were interviewed, of whom 16 were organic and 58 conventional, 56.8% were producers, 12.8% were producers / middlemen, 64.8% were overweight, 58.1% were at risk for cardiovascular diseases and tricipital cutaneous fold, most of them presented obesity. As for consumption, healthy foods were more present in daily food than not healthy. The results of prevalence of overweight are similar to the data of surveys done with the population in general, but it differs with respect to food consumption, since there is greater consumption of healthy foods by the marketers. The diet should reflect directly on the nutritional status, which showed that although there was a majority that consumed healthy foods, the consumption of processed foods was higher than expected.