Patterns of food and nutrient intake in a suburb of Dublin with chronically high unemployment

Gibney, Michael J.; Lee, Pauline

doi:10.1111/j.1365-277x.1993.tb00344.x

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“…This approach recognizes the diverse needs of subgroups in the population, where advice on key food sources of nutrients in the overall national diet can have different outcomes in the sub-groups. For example, a low iron intake is prevalent among Irish women (Lee & Cunningham, 1990) -particularly those from socially disadvantaged backgrounds (Gibney & Lee, 1993). Advice to reduce fatty meat consumption to effect a reduction in fat intakes may be counter-productive for groups where this type of meat represents an important source of iron and leaner cuts are economically out of reach.…”

Section: Dietary Guidelines: Food Intakes: Irelandmentioning

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An approach to the development of food-based dietary guidelines for Ireland

Flynn¹,

Kearney

1999

Br J Nutr

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The aim of the present study was to analyse the different food and nutrient intakes of the adult Irish population from the lowest and highest quartiles of intake for total fat (%energy) dietary fibre (g/MJ) and fruit and vegetables (g/day). Data on Irish adults (n ¼ 715) from the Irish National Nutrition Survey conducted in 1989 were used for the analyses and showed that the average diet is low in dietary fibre, with fruit and vegetables being only half the recommended level of 400 g. Comparisons of people with low or high intakes (from lowest and highest quartiles) of total fat (%energy), dietary fibre (g/MJ) and fruit and vegetables (g/day) show patterns of food intake differing in both the percentage of consumers and in the mean intakes among consumers only. This analysis provides data which may be useful as a first step towards the development of food-based dietary guidelines for Ireland. In particular, the low intake of fruit and vegetables in the adult Irish population deserves special attention. Dietary guidelines: Food intakes: IrelandThe role of nutrition in public health in Ireland was first documented in 1984 with the publication of dietary guidelines on healthy eating to prevent cardiovascular disease and cancer (Food Advisory Committee, 1984). These initial guidelines were based on international scientific reports and were mainly quantitative, recommending, for example, that the diet should provide no more than 35 % of energy as fat. Considering the overall relationship between nutrition and health, together with the lack of availability of more recent data on Irish dietary intakes, qualitative food-based dietary guidelines were formulated for Ireland in 1995 (Nutrition Advisory Group, 1995). A summary of these recommendations, with reasons given in italics, is outlined as follows:(1) Eat a wide variety of foods to reduce risk of micronutrient inadequacy. (2) Balance energy intake with physical activity to avoid overweight and obesity and achieve the health benefits of physical activity. Further qualitative guidelines were formulated for specific sub-groups of the Irish population; for example, breastfeeding is recommended during the first months of life and an overall breast-feeding initiative of 50 % by the year 2000 has been set as a target for increasing rates of breast-feeding. Quantitative guidelines on macronutrient intakes were not established for Ireland due to the lack of adequate information on nutrient intakes or on the rate of dietary change in recent years. In addition, the difficulty many people have in interpreting numeric targets and in estimating the extent of proposed change was another factor that led the Nutrition Advisory Group (1995) to favour qualitative guidelines. However, when more detailed information on nutritional intakes in Ireland becomes available, the setting of such quantitative targets for macronutrient intakes will be reconsidered because of their usefulness in the evaluation of dietary intake data (Nutrition Advisory Group, 1995).

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Section: Dietary Guidelines: Food Intakes: Irelandmentioning

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An approach to the development of food-based dietary guidelines for Ireland

Flynn¹,

Kearney

1999

Br J Nutr

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“…Studies of food expenditures have been conducted by some scholars, but the majority focuses on the composition of food consumed and its relationship with income [22,23], economic growth [24,25], as well as urbanization [5,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. In addition, other studies showed the relationship between food consumption composition with poverty [33][34][35] and unemployment [36][37][38][39][40] showing that both issues limit people's ability to consume more various and healthier food. It should be of concern that currently, the connection among regions has been increased extensively; thus, the flow of goods and people, including food products, has become more intense.…”

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Spatial Analysis of Socio-Economic Driving Factors of Food Expenditure Variation between Provinces in Indonesia

2020

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Food security has become one of the global challenges; therefore, monitoring food consumption is required. As food consumption is a resultant of food availability at an affordable price, food expenditure actually is a key indicator to assess food security policy. Particularly, the link of food expenditure with socio-economic factors based on the perspective of spatial connectivity should be understood as nowadays food supply and demand between regions are increasingly connected. This study aims to define socio-economic driving factors of food expenditure that considering spatial connectivity between provinces in Indonesia. Data of household food expenditure and socio-economic factors by province including urbanization level, economic growth, gross domestic regional product (GDRP) per capita, poverty severity index, and unemployment rate were used. The preliminary test on the spatial correlation of food expenditure showed a significant result; thus, a spatial regression approach was employed. The results showed that declining food expenditure did not simply indicate increasing prosperity. Larger income disparity among the poor has become crucial to detect lower food expenditure caused by a lack of income. In addition, the increasing unemployment rate was followed by increasing food expenditure. Despite economic growth, increasing GDRP per capita and urbanization contributing to declining food expenditure, both poverty and unemployment are the main issues that threaten household's ability to afford food. Furthermore, the effect of food expenditure in the neighboring region is also significant, but it shows a contradictory relationship as food expenditure in a region is decreasing when food expenditure in its neighbors is increasing, and vice versa. Therefore, reducing disparities in economic growth, GDRP per capita, urbanization, poverty, and unemployment rate between provinces is also crucial to support more equal food expenditure as well as to achieve the second goal of SDG's (Sustainable Development Goals) in improving food security.

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“…To estimate the amount of disposable income available for food and other necessities, after-shelter income (i.e., reported income minus costs paid for rent and basic utilities for the month) was adjusted for family size and composition by expressing this amount as a ratio of total daily energy requirement estimates for the family (Gibney and Lee 1993), using current age-and sex-specific estimates of average energy requirements (Scientific Review Committee 1990). An examination of the results of a series of diagnostic tests for collinearity in PROC REG indicated that multicollinearity was at most a minor source of error in the parameter estimates derived from these regression models.…”

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Women's Dietary Intakes in the Context of Household Food Insecurity

Tarasuk¹,

Beaton²

1999

The Journal of Nutrition

196

129

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A study of food insecurity and nutritional adequacy was conducted with a sample of 153 women in families receiving emergency food assistance in Toronto, Canada. Contemporaneous data on dietary intake and household food security over the past 30 d were available for 145 of the women. Analyses of these data revealed that women who reported hunger in their households during the past 30 d also reported systematically lower intakes of energy and a number of nutrients. The effect of household-level hunger on intake persisted even when other economic, socio-cultural, and behavioral influences on reported dietary intake were considered. Estimated prevalences of inadequacy in excess of 15% were noted for Vitamin A, folate, iron, and magnesium in this sample, suggesting that the low levels of intake associated with severe household food insecurity are in a range that could put women at risk of nutrient deficiencies. J. Nutr. 129: 672-679, 1999.Food insecurity, "the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways" (Anderson 1990), has become a matter of increasing concern among western nations in recent years. The assessment of this construct typically occurs through self-reported appraisals of the adequacy and security of the household food supply and individuals' accounts of their experiences of food deprivation. However, an understanding of the relationship between household or individual-level food insecurity and dietary adequacy is imperative in appraising the consequences of food insecurity for nutritional health and well-being. Some indication that perceived adequacy of the household food supply is related to individual members' dietary intakes has come from observed associations between household food sufficiency status and dietary intake data (Cristofar and Basiotis 1992, Rose and Oliveira 1997) and between household food security status and the available household food supply (Kendall et al. 1995) and dietary intake (Kendall et al. 1996).A study undertaken to assess food insecurity and nutritional adequacy among women in families who seek emergency food relief (Tarasuk and Beaton, unpublished data) provided an opportunity to examine the relationship between women's dietary intakes and a comprehensive, contemporaneous measure of household food security status. In this paper, women's intakes are examined in relation to reported household food security status and presence or absence of hunger in the household. To examine whether the women's intakes were in a range that suggested possible nutritional problems, the apparent prevalence of nutrient inadequacy was estimated. METHODSParticipant recruitment and data collection. Participants were recruited on a first come, first served basis when they came to seek food assistance at one of a stratified random sample of 21 of the 77 emergency food hamper programs operating in Metropolitan Toronto. (These are ad hoc, community-based, charitable food prog...

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Patterns of food and nutrient intake in a suburb of Dublin with chronically high unemployment

Cited by 9 publications

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An approach to the development of food-based dietary guidelines for Ireland

An approach to the development of food-based dietary guidelines for Ireland

Spatial Analysis of Socio-Economic Driving Factors of Food Expenditure Variation between Provinces in Indonesia

Women's Dietary Intakes in the Context of Household Food Insecurity

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