What Can Dietary Patterns Tell Us about the Nutrition Transition and Environmental Sustainability of Diets in Uganda?

ABSTRACT: Uganda is undergoing dietary transition, with possible environmental sustainability and health implications, particularly for women. To explore evidence for dietary transitions and identify how environmentally sustainable women's dietary patterns are, principal component analysis was performed on dietary data collected using a 24 h recall during the Uganda Food Consumption Survey (n = 957). Four dietary patterns explained 23.6% of the variance. The "traditional, high-fat, medium environmental impact" pattern was characterized by high intakes of nuts/seeds, fats, oils and spreads, fish and boiled vegetables. High intakes of bread and buns, rice and pasta, tea and sugar characterized the "transitioning, processed, low environmental impact' pattern. The 'plant-based, low environmental impact"

SUBMITTER: Auma CI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6412986 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature