TY - JOUR
T1 - Cost of compliance with daily recommended values of micronutrients among a cohort of Spanish university graduates
T2 - The SUN (Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra) Study
AU - Lopez, Celeste N.
AU - Martinez-Gonzalez, Miguel A.
AU - Alonso, Alvaro
AU - Sanchez-Villegas, Almudena
AU - De La Fuente, Carmen
AU - Bes-Rastrollo, Maira
PY - 2009/2
Y1 - 2009/2
N2 - Objective: 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.Design, setting and subjects 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.Results: and Conclusions: 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).
AB - Objective: 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.Design, setting and subjects 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.Results: and Conclusions: 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).
KW - Daily recommended values
KW - Diet costs
KW - Micronutrients
KW - Minerals
KW - Vitamins
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U2 - 10.1017/S1368980009005278
DO - 10.1017/S1368980009005278
M3 - Article
C2 - 19323866
AN - SCOPUS:75149194470
SN - 1368-9800
VL - 12
SP - 2092
EP - 2096
JO - Public health nutrition
JF - Public health nutrition
IS - 11
ER -