Cost of compliance with daily recommended values of micronutrients among a cohort of Spanish university graduates: the SUN (Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra) Study

Public Health Nutrition

Maira Bes-Rastrollo¹  Carmen de la Fuente¹  Miguel A Martinez-Gonzalez¹  Alvaro Alonso¹  Almudena Sanchez-Villegas¹  Celeste N Lopez¹ 

关键词: Daily recommended values;    Diet costs;    Micronutrients;    Vitamins;    Minerals;   

DOI  :  10.1017/S1368980009005278

学科分类：卫生学

来源: Cambridge University Press

【 摘 要 】

ObjectivePrevious studies have shown that highly nutritious diets are more costly, but to date there has been no evaluation of the costs associated with failing to meet micronutrient recommendations in a Spanish population.Design, setting and subjectsWe examined whether daily food consumption costs (classified in quintiles) were associated with failing to meet at least three daily nutritional recommendations out of twenty (including fibre and nineteen micronutrients) in a cross-sectional analysis of baseline data of a cohort of 17 197 Spanish university graduates. Micronutrients and fibre intake were assessed with a validated 136-item FFQ. Average cost of food was calculated from official Spanish government data.Results and conclusionsAs participants presented higher dietary energy cost from their diet, their intake of micronutrients increased significantly. Low dietary energy cost was associated with a higher likelihood of failing to meet three or more recommendations (P for trend

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