TITLE:
Association of Vegetable Consumption with Nutritional Status in Adolescents in Mexico City
AUTHORS:
Claudia Cecilia Radilla Vázquez, Salvador Vega y León, Rey Gutiérrez Tolentino, María Radilla Vázquez, Marcela Vazquez Francisca, Clemente Sierra Cortés, Marta Coronado Herrera, Juan Gabriel Rivera Martínez
KEYWORDS:
Adolescents, Vegetables, Overweight, Obesity, Mexico
JOURNAL NAME:
Food and Nutrition Sciences,
Vol.7 No.14,
December
29,
2016
ABSTRACT: It has been documented that increased vegetable consumption is associated with
preventive effects in some public health problems such as obesity and some chronic
noncommunicable diseases. The aim of this study was to determine the association
of nutritional status with vegetable consumption in adolescents from Technical High
Schools in Mexico City. A sample of 2368 adolescents was obtained who were applied
a questionnaire of frequency food consumption and anthropometric measurements
were taken, the nutritional diagnosis was obtained with Who Anthro Plus
program. The data obtained were analyzed with the statistical package SPSS version
20.0 for Windows Statistics®. When the correlation of frequency consumption of
vegetables with nutritional status, in the final phase, It found that teens who never
ate vegetables were more likely to develop obesity (36.0% GI and 36.10% GC), compared
with teens who consumed daily (8.9% GI and 2.10% GC), existing difference
highly significant. The teenagers of the Technical High School in Mexico City in the
intervention group presented a basal daily intake of 15.7% and after the intervention
their intake increased to 21.3%. With respect to the control group it started with a
daily intake of 12.6% to 14.9% increasing it. An increase was achieved in the daily
consumption of vegetables in adolescents of both groups so it is concluded that the
intervention was successful.