Adherence to dietary guidelines for the Spanish population and risk of overweight/obesity in the SUN cohort.

ABSTRACT: Dietary guidelines play a key role in setting standards for nutrition policies and promoting healthy eating. Like other public health guidelines, they are often influenced by political and economic factors that could place other concerns ahead of the population's health. In order to determine their effectiveness on obesity prevention, we prospectively examined the association between adherence to the latest available national dietary guidelines and the incidence of overweight/obesity in a Spanish cohort study. A sample of 11,554 participants of the "Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra" (SUN) cohort, initially free of overweight or obesity, was included in the study. The Spanish Society of Community Nutrition (SENC) food pyramid (FP) score was computed based on the ratio of consumed to recom

SUBMITTER: Gomez-Donoso C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6938338 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature