Evaluating Dietary Patterns in Women from Southern Italy and Western Mexico.

ABSTRACT: Traditional diets are known to be beneficial; however, both Italian and Mexican populations are gradually moving away from the Mediterranean and traditional Mexican diets. Since women play a key role in safeguarding dietary traditions and may reflect population dietary changes, we aimed to identify Italian and Mexican women’s current dietary patterns (DPs) and characterize their nutrient content. Cross-sectional analyses were separately conducted on two convenience samples of 811 women from Southern Italy and 215 women from Western Mexico. Food frequency questionnaires, 24 h recalls, and a principal component analysis (PCA) approach were used to derive a posteriori DPs. In Italian women, the first DP was characterized by the consumption of legumes, vegetables, and fish (8.8% of the total v

SUBMITTER: Ojeda-Granados C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9027885 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature