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- Title
Cost of compliance with daily recommended values of micronutrients among a cohort of Spanish university graduates: the SUN (Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra) Study.
- Authors
Lopez CN; Martinez-Gonzalez MA; Alonso A; Sanchez-Villegas A; de la Fuente C; Bes-Rastrollo M; Lopez, Celeste N; Martinez-Gonzalez, Miguel A; Alonso, Alvaro; Sanchez-Villegas, Almudena; de la Fuente, Carmen; Bes-Rastrollo, Maira
- Abstract
<bold>Objective: </bold>Previous 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.<bold>Design, Setting and Subjects: </bold>We 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.<bold>Results and Conclusions: </bold>As 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 <0.001 across quintiles of dietary cost), the association being stronger among female than male participants (P for interaction between sex and quintile of dietary energy cost <0.001).
- Publication
Public Health Nutrition, 2009, Vol 12, Issue 11, p2092
- ISSN
1368-9800
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1017/S1368980009005278