Geographic and socioeconomic diversity of food and nutrient intakes: a comparison of four European countries

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00394-018-1673-6" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00394-018-1673-6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00394-018-1673-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00394-018-1673-6</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Geographic and socioeconomic diversity of food and nutrient intakes: a comparison of four European countries

Original language description

PurposePublic health policies and actions increasingly acknowledge the climate burden of food consumption. The aim of this study is to describe dietary intakes across four European countries, as baseline for further research towards healthier and environmentally-friendlier diets for Europe.MethodsIndividual-level dietary intake data in adults were obtained from nationally-representative surveys from Denmark and France using a 7-day diet record, Italy using a 3-day diet record, and Czech Republic using two replicates of a 24-h recall. Energy-standardised food and nutrient intakes were calculated for each subject from the mean of two randomly selected days.ResultsThere was clear geographical variability, with a between-country range for mean fruit intake from 118 to 199g/day, for vegetables from 95 to 239g/day, for fish from 12 to 45g/day, for dairy from 129 to 302g/day, for sweet beverages from 48 to 224ml/day, and for alcohol from 8 to 15g/day, with higher intakes in Italy for fruit, vegetables and fish, and in Denmark for dairy, sweet beverages and alcohol. In all countries, intakes were low for legumes (<20g/day), and nuts and seeds (<5g/day), but high for red and processed meat (>80g/day). Within countries, food intakes also varied by socio-economic factors such as age, gender, and educational level, but less pronounced by anthropometric factors such as overweight status. For nutrients, intakes were low for dietary fibre (15.8-19.4g/day) and vitamin D (2.4-3.0 mu g/day) in all countries, for potassium (2288-2938mg/day) and magnesium (268-285mg/day) except in Denmark, for vitamin E in Denmark (6.7mg/day), and for folate in Czech Republic (212 mu g/day).ConclusionsThere is considerable variation in food and nutrient intakes across Europe, not only between, but also within countries. Individual-level dietary data provide insight into the heterogeneity of dietary habits beyond per capita food supply data, and this is crucial to balancing healthy and environmentally-friendly diets for European citizens.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30304 - Public and environmental health

Project

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Continuities

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Nutrition

ISSN

1436-6207

e-ISSN

1436-6215

Volume of the periodical

58

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

1475-1493

UT code for WoS article

000471256100012

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85044482101