Severe food insecurity is associated with obesity among Brazilian adolescent females

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1854-1860

  Kac, Gilberto ^a   Velásquez Melendez, Gustavo ^b   Schlüssel, Michael M ^a   Segall Côrrea, Ana Maria ^c   Silva, Antônio Am ^d   Pérez Escamilla, Rafael ^e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MARANHÃO   (Brazil)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Cross sectional; Excessive weight; Food insecurity; Nutrition transition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAZIL; CATERING SERVICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; OBESITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEALTH TRANSITION; HUMANS; OBESITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866369120     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980011003582     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Lohman BJ, Stewart S, Gundersen C et al. (2009) Adolescent overweight and obesity: links to food insecurity and individual, maternal, and family stressors. J Adolesc Health 45, 230-237.
2. Casey PH, Simpson PM, Gossett JM et al. (2006) The association of child and household food insecurity with childhood overweight status. Pediatrics 118, e1406-e1413.
3. Gundersen C, Garasky S & Lohman BJ (2009) Food insecurity is not associated with childhood obesity as assessed using multiple measures of obesity. J Nutr 139, 1173-1178.
4. Institute of Medicine (2011) Hunger and Obesity: Understanding a Food Insecurity Paradigm: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
5. Eisenmann JC, Gundersen C, Lohman BJ et al. (2011) Is food insecurity related to overweight and obesity in children and adolescents? A summary of studies, 1995-2009. Obes Rev 12, e73-e83.
6. Pérez-Escamilla R (2011) Food insecurity and hunger in children: impact on physical and psycho-emotional development. In Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease, 11th ed. [CA Ross, B Caballero, RJ Cousins et al., editors]. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (In the Press).
7. Larson NI & Story MT (2011) Food insecurity and weight status among US children and families: a review of the literature. Am J Prev Med 40, 166-173.
8. Franklin B, Jones A, Love D et al. (2011) Exploring mediators of food insecurity and obesity: a review of recent literature. J Community Health (Epublication ahead of print version).
9. Rose D & Bodor JN (2006) Household food insecurity and overweight status in young school children: results from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study. Pediatrics 117, 464-473.
10. Jyoti DF, Frongillo EA & Jones SJ (2005) Food insecurity affects school children's academic performance, weight gain, and social skills. J Nutr 135, 2831-2839.
11. Alaimo K, Olson CM & Frongillo EA Jr (2001) Low family income and food insufficiency in relation to overweight in US children: is there a paradox? Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 155, 1161-1167.
12. Oh SY & Hong MJ (2003) Food insecurity is associated with dietary intake and body size of Korean children from low-income families in urban areas. Eur J Clin Nutr 57, 1598-1604.
13. Ortiz-Hernandez L, Acosta-Gutierrez MN, Nunez-Perez AE et al. (2007) Food insecurity and obesity are positively associated in Mexico City schoolchildren. Rev Invest Clin 59, 32-41.
14. Isanaka S, Mora-Plazas M, Lopez-Arana S et al. (2007) Food insecurity is highly prevalent and predicts underweight but not overweight in adults and school children from Bogota, Colombia. J Nutr 137, 2747-2755.
15. Velasquez-Melendez G, Schlussel MM, Brito AS et al. (2011) Mild but not light or severe food insecurity is associated with obesity among Brazilian women. J Nutr 141, 898-902.
16. Dubois L, Francis D, Burnier D et al. (2011) Household food insecurity and childhood overweight in Jamaica and Quebec: a gender-based analysis. BMC Public Health 11, 199.
17. Victora CG, Aquino EM, do Carmo Leal M et al. (2011) Maternal and child health in Brazil: progress and challenges. Lancet 377, 1863-1876.
18. Ministério da Saúde & Centro Brasiliero de Analise e Planejamento (2009) Pesquisa Nacional de Demografia e Saúde da Criança e da Mulher PNDS 2006. Dimensões do Processo Reprodutivo e da Saúde da Criança. Brasília: Ministério da Saúde; available at http://bvsms.saude.gov. br/bvs/publicacoes/pnds- crianca-mulher.pdf
19. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (2007) Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílio: 2006. Rio de Janeiro: IBGE.
20. World Health Organization (1995) Physical Status: The Use and Interpretation of Anthropometry. Geneva: WHO.
21. WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group (2006) WHO Child Growth Standards: Length/Height-for-Age, Weight-for-Age, Weight-for-Length, Weight-for-Height and Body Mass Index-for-Age: Methods and Development. Geneva: WHO.
22. Radimer KL (2002) Measurement of household food security in the USA and other industrialised countries. Public Health Nutr 5, 859-864.
23. Webb P, Coates J, Frongillo EA et al. (2006) Measuring household food insecurity: why it's so important and yet so difficult to do. J Nutr 136, issue 5, 1404S-1408S.
24. Hamilton WL, Cook JT, Thompson WW et al. (1997) Household Food Security in the United States in 1995: Summary Report of the Food Security Measurement Project. Alexandria, VA: US Department of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Service; available at http://www.fns.usda.gov/oane/MENU/Published/FoodSecurity/ SUMRPT.PDF
25. Hamilton WL, Cook JT, Thompson WW et al. (1997) Household Food Security in the United States in 1995: Technical Report of the Food Security Measurement Project. Alexandria, VA: US Department of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Service; available at http://www.fns.usda.gov/oane/MENU/Published/FoodSecurity/ TECH-RPT.PDF
26. Perez-Escamilla R & Segall-Correa AM (2008) Food insecurity measurement and indicators. Rev Nutr 21, Suppl., 15s-26s.
27. Perez-Escamilla R, Segall-Correa AM, Kurdian Maranha L et al. (2004) An adapted version of the US Department of Agriculture Food Insecurity module is a valid tool for assessing household food insecurity in Campinas, Brazil. J Nutr 134, 1923-1928.
28. Melgar-Quinonez HR, Nord M, Perez-Escamilla R et al. (2008) Psychometric properties of a modified US-household food security survey module in Campinas, Brazil. Eur J Clin Nutr 62, 665-673.
29. Segall-Corrêa AM, Perez-Escamilla R, Marín-León L et al. (2008) Evaluation of household insecurity in Brazil: validity assessment in diverse sociocultural settings. In Memoria Primer Concurso Investigaciones REDSAN 2007, pp. 80-101 [FAO, editor]. Santiago: FAO; available at http://www.rlc. fao.org/iniciativa/pdf/memredsan.pdf
30. Frongillo EA Jr (1999) Validation of measures of food insecurity and hunger. J Nutr 129, 2S Suppl., 506S-509S.
31. Araujo C, Toral N, Silva AC et al. (2010) Nutritional status of adolescents and its relation with socio-demographics variables: National Adolescent School-based Health Survey (PeNSE), 2009. Cienc Saude Coletiva 15, Suppl. 2, 3077-3084.
32. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (2010) Pesquisa de Orçamentos Familiares 2008-2009: Antropometria e estado nutricional de crianças, adolescentes e adultos no Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: IBGE; available at http://www.ibge. gov.br/home/estatistica/populacao/condicaodevida/ pof/2008-2009-encaa/default.shtm
33. Santos JV, Gigante DP & Domingues MR (2010) Prevalence of food insecurity in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, and associated nutritional status. Cad Saude Publica 26, 41-49.
34. Bronte-Tinkew J, Zaslow M, Capps R et al. (2007) Food insecurity works through depression, parenting, and infant feeding to influence overweight and health in toddlers. J Nutr 137, 2160-2165.
35. Metallinos-Katsaras E, Sherry B & Kallio J (2009) Food insecurity is associated with overweight in children younger than 5 years of age. J Am Diet Assoc 109, 1790-1794.
36. Bhargava A, Jolliffe D & Howard LL (2008) Socio-economic, behavioural and environmental factors predicted body weights and household food insecurity scores in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten. Br J Nutr 100, 438-444.
37. Reis M (2011) Food insecurity and the relationship between household income and children's health and nutrition in Brazil. Health Econ (Epublication ahead of print version).
38. Tanumihardjo SA, Anderson C, Kaufer-Horwitz M et al. (2007) Poverty, obesity, and malnutrition: an international perspective recognizing the paradox. J Am Diet Assoc 107, 1966-1972.
39. Finkelstein EA & Strombotne KL (2010) The economics of obesity. Am J Clin Nutr 91, issue 5, 1520S-1524S.
40. Levy RB, Castro IRR, Cardoso LO et al. (2010) Food consumption and eating behavior among Brazilian adolescents: National Adolescent School-based Health Survey (PeNSE), 2009. Cienc Saude Coletiva 15, 3085-3097.
41. Monteiro CA, D'A Benicio MH, Conde WL et al. (2000) Shifting obesity trends in Brazil. Eur J Clin Nutr 54, 342-346.
42. Kakeshita IS & Almeida SS (2008) The relationship between body mass index and body image in Brazilian adults. Psychol Neurosci 28, 103-107.
43. Webb AL, Schiff A, Currivan D et al. (2008) Food Stamp Program participation but not food insecurity is associated with higher adult BMI in Massachusetts residents living in low-income neighbourhoods. Public Health Nutr 11, 1248-1255.
44. Gibson D (2003) Food stamp program participation is positively related to obesity in low income women. J Nutr 133, 2225-2231.
45. Soares S & Sátyro N (2009) O programa bolsa família: desenho institucional, impactos e possibilidades futuras/The bolsa família program: institutional design, impacts and future possibilities (Texto para discussão 1424). Brasília: Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada; available at http://www.ipea.gov.br/sites/000/2/ publicacoes/tds/td-1424.pdf
46. Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social e Combate à Fome (2007) Avaliação de Políticas e Programas do MDS-Resultados Volume 2-Bolsa Família e Assistência Social. Brasília: Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social e Combate à Fome, Secretaria de Avaliação e Gestão da Informação; available at http://www.mds.gov.br/gestaodainformacao/biblioteca/secretaria-de-avaliacao- e-gestao-de-informacao-sagi/livros/avaliacao-de-politicas-e-programas-do-mds- 2013-resultados-volume-2-2013-bolsa-familia-e-assistencia-social/avali2.pdf
47. Rivera Castineira B, Currais Nunes L & Rungo P (2009) The impact of conditional cash transfers on health status: the Brazilian Bolsa Familia Programme. Rev Esp Salud Publica 83, 85-97.
48. Panigassi G, Segall-Corrêa AM, Marin-León L et al. (2008) Insegurança alimentar intrafamiliar e perfil de consumo de alimentos/Intra-family food insecurity and profile of food consumption. Rev Nutr 21, Suppl., 135s-144s.