The contribution of subsidized food commodities to total energy intake among US adults

Public Health Nutrition

Mohammed K Ali¹  Kai McKeever Bullard¹  Henry S Kahn¹  Aryeh D Stein¹  Giuseppina Imperatore¹  KM Narayan¹  Karen R Siegel¹  Neil K Mehta¹  Amy Webb Girard¹ 

关键词: Dietary intake;    Subsidized food commodities;    Obesity;    Diabetes;    National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys;   

DOI  :  10.1017/S1368980015002414

学科分类：卫生学

来源: Cambridge University Press

【 摘 要 】

AbstractObjectiveThe contribution of subsidized food commodities to total food consumption is unknown. We estimated the proportion of individual energy intake from food commodities receiving the largest subsidies from 1995 to 2010 (corn, soyabeans, wheat, rice, sorghum, dairy and livestock).DesignIntegrating information from three federal databases (MyPyramid Equivalents, Food Intakes Converted to Retail Commodities, and What We Eat in America) with data from the 2001–2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, we computed a Subsidy Score representing the percentage of total energy intake from subsidized commodities. We examined the score’s distribution and the probability of having a ‘high’ (≥70th percentile) v. ‘low’ (≤30th percentile) score, across the population and subgroups, using multivariate logistic regression.SettingCommunity-dwelling adults in the USA.SubjectsParticipants (n 11 811) aged 18–64 years.ResultsMedian Subsidy Score was 56·7 % (interquartile range 47·2–65·4 %). Younger, less educated, poorer, and Mexican Americans had higher scores. After controlling for covariates, age, education and income remained independently associated with the score: compared with individuals aged 55–64 years, individuals aged 18–24 years had a 50 % higher probability of having a high score (P

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